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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chaste Maid in Cheapside!" by Thomas Middleton, was the work chosen by the House Dramatic Society, but they promised that next year they would probably present a clean play. Next year will be one year too late, however, for last night protests began coming from the Watch and Ward Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot House Christmas Play Amuses, Confuses Audience, Is Called "Rank" | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

...Also late was Driver Farrold Silcox and his school bus containing 38 Mormon children on their way to the District High School. On the other side of the tracks he still had others to collect. At a grade crossing near Midvale Driver Silcox stopped, looked, listened. Then he started across the tracks. The 48-car Flying Ute, which Driver Silcox seems neither to have seen nor heard, at that instant roared out of the storm, screamed its warning and struck. A young bo named Witter, who was riding an icy tank car near the engine, jumped out in the snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Awfullest Thing | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Encyclopedia Britannica of the music world is the late Sir George Grove's five-volume Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Every 20 years or so the learned editors of Sir George's brain child rack their teeming brains and bring forth a new edition. Between these monumental foalings there is spawned a smaller fry of musical dictionaries and encyclopedias, offering fresher if skimpier information at more modest prices. For these, the 1938 birth rate has been the highest in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Million-Word Charm | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

With rising passion, Maitre Aymoz got into his stride: "As the late Lord Dewar once facetiously remarked : 'In the old days a meal was opened with prayer; nowadays in many homes it is opened with a can-opener!' " But Aymoz was not above paying tribute to "one of the finest and most succulent, and nutritive dishes in the world'' - the U. S. hamburger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food & Wisdom | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Late last September a typical Hollywood party-including Countess Dorothy di Frasso, Marino Bello (once stepfather of the late Jean Harlow). and Richard E. Pulley, cousin of Anthony Eden-put out of Los Angeles in the three-master Met ha Nelson for a month or so of shark-hunting. Master of the ship was German Captain Robert Hoffman. In the crew were several Jews. At San Jose, Guatemala, two of the crew jumped ship, got passage back to Los Angeles, where they were promptly arrested last week on a radioed complaint for "resisting the officers of an American vessel [mutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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