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Word: ann (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest doll manufacturer on the West Coast is a copper-haired, blue-eyed, thirtyish San Franciscan named Nancy Ann Abbott, who had intended to be a movie star. Last week Miss Abbott sat in unaccustomed peace in her blue-carpeted studio-office: by her orders all the telephone lines that connect Nancy Ann Dressed Dolls Inc. with the world had been disconnected. Her reason: "When that phone rings it means trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOYS: Oh, You Beautiful Doll | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...North Star (Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Erich von Stroheim; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...North Star (Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Erich von Stroheim; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Died. Bertha Knight Landes, 75, first woman mayor of a major U.S. city (Seattle, 1926-28); in Ann Arbor, Mich. Wife of a professor, mother of two, vigorous Mrs. Landes became "wide-open" Seattle's mayor at 58. She made its trolley lines pay for the first time in ten years, made life miserable for pimps and bookies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...these days the Queen of Beantown Burlesque since your Dad's college days, Ann Corio, is doing war relief work. Her local agent quoted her as declaring, "I'd give the skirt off--" but lot the bare facts speak for themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

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