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Word: adding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best ham: John Barrymore as the incorrigible ad-libertine in My Dear Children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Annual Report | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Catholic liberal editors admitted that there was not much they could do about it if church leaders should give MacManus the go-ahead. MacManus' self-styled "No 1 Man" is Frank Jacob Mullen, who lately resigned as top ad salesman for the Satevepost to promote MacManus' proposed Catholic newspaper merger. Said he: "It doesn't make a hell of a lot of difference what editors think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MacManus' Scheme | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Mister, you sure started something when you wrote that article in TIME, March 18, titled "Innocent in Wall Street," in which you mentioned the ad in the Wall Street Journal in which I advertised for a partner with $15,000 to help me dig a well and me getting in a mess with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

When I put that ad in the Wall Street Journal, if I had had $50,000 in cash money, a man sure would have had to twist my arm a long time to make me offer an offer like that, but it was just a case of I figured that the oil was there, I had the drill rigs and the equipment, the drillers and roughnecks wanted to go to work but it took collective money because it had to be cash money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Jimmy Durante's methodical performance, on the other hand, lacks the zest and originality of his usual ad-lib burlesque. Ilka Chase, also prominent in the comedy sequences, carries off one of the show's funniest scenes with Durante and Bolger in "Rhett, Scarlett, and Ashley." Typical crack out of the mouth of academy award winner, "Scarlett O'Leigh" is: "Mr. Selznick made me--he made me over night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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