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Word: annabell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hero Casanova Jones, "a gentleman sober, a gentleman blotto," is a Prohibition agent whose wife runs a speakeasy. Beautiful but thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prohibition in Prosody & Prose | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...Merrie England of the ballad. Robin Hood The Cast Sudworth Frazier Sheriff of Nottingham William Danforth Sir Guy Gisborne John Cherry Little John Greek Evans Will Scarlet Charles Galagher Friar Tuck William White Allan-a-Dale Lorna Doone Jackson Lady Marian Fitzwalter Olga Steck Dame Burden Sara Camp Annabel Gladys Heyser

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/19/1930 | See Source »

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