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Word: joshua (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eyed partner in supertemporal romance. These two extract fine philosophical nuance as well as fantasy from their curious roles. All three acts are laid in a Queen Anne drawing room, magnificently rendered by Sir Edwin Lutyens, famed British architect (TIME, Aug. 12), containing an easel originally owned by Sir Joshua Reynolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...range is too limited to offset it. But the lay audience, including such famed white Negrophiles as Novelists Fannie Hurst and Carl Van Vechten, received him ecstatically, applauded tremendously after ''Water Boy,'' "I'm Goin' to Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J.; at Toronto. Pittsburgh. Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Columbus, Ohio. In January he returns to London to play the Moor in Shakespeare's Othello. If successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Professor Peck the Garden passed under the charge of Thomas Nuttall as Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income to a full professorship. About 1842 the income of a newly established professorship, endowed by Joshua Fisher 1766, became available, and to this new chair Dr. Asa Gray was invited. The most recent change came in 1923, when Assistant Professor S. F. Hamblin was made director...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOTANIC GARDENS UNDERGO CHANGES | 10/29/1929 | See Source »

...Hunneman 2L. Standish E24 Mr. Henry Pennypacker Shepard's Block 5 Madison Sayles 3G.B. Walter Hastings 52 *H. M. Hart Jr. 3L. Walter Hastings 16 *W. J. Kyle Jr. 3L. Westmorly 2 E. M. Weld Jr. 3L. Westmorly 124 G. A. Morgan Jr. 4G. Morris D 11 Prof. Joshua Whatmough Fairfax 307 *E. M. Dowe Prescott Hall K. J. White 3G 25 Holyoke St. R. S. Kersten 44 Brattle *W. J. Bender

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGENT NAMES REVISED GROUP OF 46 PROCTORS | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

Last week at London, Richard Joshua Reynolds, 23, son of the late founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel cigarets, etc.), was found guilty of killing a man while drunk and driving his motor car. The court sentenced him to five months' light imprisonment for manslaughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drunkenness | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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