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Word: agains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When this fend is carried to the younger generation, the fun really begins. These French youngsters make the Dead End Kids look like a bunch of sissies. They guzzle wine, swear colorfully, completely befuddle their naive schoolmaster, and stage a roaring battle with their bare buttocks billowing in the breeze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

Destry Rides Again (Universal). One day this year Hungarian-born Producer Joe Pasternak had an idea for a U. S. western. He would take German-born Marlene Dietrich, cast her as French-born entertainer in a Wild West saloon. He would take Russian-born Mischa Auer, cast him as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Destry Rides Again is charged with enough buckaroo comedy* and sheer animal spirits to keep cinemaudiences chortling even when there is nothing to laugh at, makes even the widely advertised Dietrich v. Merkel hair-pulling match (the closest the picture comes to being vulgar) seem just a romp. As entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Neither Producer Pasternak nor anybody else could foresee what Samuel S. Hinds (who was the father who played with fireworks in You Can't Take It With You) would do to Destry Rides Again. As a top-hatted, bespectacled, tobacco-chawing old mayor of Bottle Neck, and a crooked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Illman prevailed in his match by dint of his superior knowledge and opportunist tactics, and just edged the more muscular Loring after coming from behind, with all odds again him, at the end of four minutes of wrestling.

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Overcome Jumbos 24-8; Daughaday and Thomas Star | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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