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Word: allen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly afterward Albert Chaperau ceased to be amused. He was twice more indicted along with Comedian George Burns (sidekick of Gracie Allen) for smuggling $4,885 worth of diamond bracelets and a ring. To make matters worse, jolly George Burns admitted making payments to Chaperau, pleaded guilty to nine counts, laid himself open to a maximum sentence of 18 years in prison and a $45,000 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chaperau's Way | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...into the studio lake to make it blue enough to serve as a satisfactory Technicolor background for innumerable fights, canoe trips, duellos and hairbreadth escapes of a lively, oldfashioned, fir-tree melodrama. Typical shot: Dick Foran and Russell Simpson wrestling on the edge of a cliff, while Allen Jenkins watches from the underbrush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...study of a foreign lady who is planted in an American life that is Allen to her has been a favorite subject of Rachel Field's. A few years ago the story of the Prussian Lady who had been married to Samuel Hadlock and brought back to spend the rest of her days under the shadow of the blue Mount Desert Hills on lonely Cranberry Island was told in "God's Pocket." Now in "All This and Heaven Too" there is the same fundamental situation although the details are very different, the characters of Henrlette Doluzy-Desportes and the Prussian...

Author: By C. F., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 12/17/1938 | See Source »

...officers were elected: T. F. Bradshaw, '40, succeeding Samuel N. Hinckley, '39, as President; Gardner C. Quarton, '40, succeeding R. Palmer Baker, Jr., '39, as Secretary; Paul W. Cherington, '40, succeeding John H. Davies, '39 as Treasurer; Lonsdale F. Stowell, '41, as Advertising Manager; Samuel S. Binnian, '40, succeeding Allen W. Clowes, '39, as Circulation Manager; and John H. Huntington, '40, as Bacchus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVOCATE HOLDS ELECTION | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

...other side of the picture is that Coach Eck Allen is bringing a highly promising Brown quintet to Cambridge led by the sensational Harry Platt at forward. Jack Padden, a Sophomore, will probably get the call at the other forward post over the ailing "Soup" Campbell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feslermen After Second Victory in Tilt With Brown | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

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