Search Details

Word: aliases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

"One Million B.C." is a story of civilization in-the -raw, democracy-in-diapers. Among its many attractions are various over-sized lizards (alias ictheobrontosorsithiuses, er' somethin'), the super-colossal eruption of a gigantic volcano--in miniature, and a blonde named Carol Landis who kicks the stone-age gong around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Hollywood was going irresponsible professionally-and for good box-office reasons-but privately life was getting relatively earnest. Sidney Skolsky spotted Jimmy Roosevelt spreading charm around a Hollywood party unconscious of a Willkie button slyly pinned to the back of his coat. Walter O'Keefe, a New York comedian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Busy Bodies | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

For strange religions the U. S. has a capacity boundless as its hope and gullibility. Most cockeyed cult of all is the Mighty I AM Presence. Last week I AM's leaders were filled with anything but Joy and Bliss. Indicted in Los Angeles (U. S. crazy-cult headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I AM in a Jam | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

weekday radio entertainers (just behind Sunday top-liners Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen) are an old time, tank-town vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Birthdays. Daniel Harris (his pension checks always read "alias George Irving," under which name he enlisted), sole surviving Jewish veteran of the G. A. R., 94; Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, Labrador medical missionary, 75; Frederic William Goudy, dean of U. S. type designers, 75; Pope Pius XII, on the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Previous | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | Next