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Word: allene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gorgeous Bachelor Girl Gail Allen (Madeleine Carroll) was doing just about as well bossing a Fifth Avenue department store as British Cinemactress Carroll is doing in U. S. pictures. Gail knew all the answers and none of them was masculine. But when cocksure Bill Burnett (self-consciously cute Fred MacMurray) blew in from Bali like a tropical monsoon, scripters were hard put to it to keep him from thawing icy Gail too fast, convincing her too soon that woman's place is in the home when not in the maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Council Against Intolerance in America (cochairmen: William Allen White, George Gordon Battle, W. Warren Barbour) sent to the nation's high schools a manual called An American Answer to Intolerance, instructing teachers how to immunize pupils against propaganda, teach them not to hate aliens, Jews or Germans (by teaching them to recognize their own prejudices, propagandists' tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions (cont'd) | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...news review editor of the Associated Press, New York City; William P. Vogel, Jr., 28, city hall reporter of The New York Herald Tribune; Oscar J. Buttodahl, 35, editor of The Leader, Bismarck, N. D.; Glenn C. Nixon, 31, economic reporter on The United States News, Washington, D.C.; Edward Allen, 33, of The Boston Herald; and Steven M. Spencer, 33, of The Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Frankfurter Dine With Nieman, Fellows as Journalists Begin Study | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Hall, Jr., John Michael Harrington, Jr., Robert Alexander Hawkins, John Walter Hewitt, David Richard Howard, Chester Walton Jenks, Howard Arthur Joos. Milton Wallace Kelly, Horace Goodwin Killam, Jr., Robert Frederick Kolkebeck, Warron Julian Loring, Donald Edward McNicol, Alexander D. Mebane, Berkeley Davis More, Peter Hans Muench, James McGee Phillips, Allen Dwight Sapp, Jr., Richard Blaisdell Seymour, Alan Gregory Skelly, Paul Southwick, Oliver Rowland Blanchard Statler, Edmund John Steytler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 218 FRESHMEN TO GET SCHOLARSHIPS | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...disintegration, and the shadow of one man. The man is Stephen Haines. The most important women are his wife Mary (Norma Shearer), her cattish friend Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell), who makes sure that Mary knows about Stephen's carrying on with a perfume salesgirl, and the girl, Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). Mary's consequent trip to Reno introduces her to many another specimen of her sex, notably a fat U. S. countess (Mary Boland) with a crush on a cowboy named Buck, and Sylvia Fowler's own marital Nemesis, gay but tenacious Show-girl Miriam Aarons (Paulette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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