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...greed for fish that led her astray, as she followed three undergraduates from her pool in the theatre to their waiting car. Only after talking with the Hollywood press-agent who had instigated the sealnaping, did she realize that this was only a stunt to prove that she had "more sex appeal than Ann Sheridan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coppers Uncover Kidnaped Actress In Dorm Bathtub | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...emerged with a staunch conviction that Coolidge was a "genius of the average." (It was this genius, he thinks, which led astray so many sophisticated observers - they looked for the wrong signs, being familiar only with commoner and more spectacular varieties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Average Genius | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...outlined an ambitious schedule of four pictures a year. First picture was The Notorious Elinor Lee, which tells the story of a double-crossing colored gun moll who gets properly shot. Lyin' Lips, the second picture, is also completed. "It is about a beautiful girl who is led astray because she wants beautiful things. . . . You see," said Producer Julian, "I am trying to build up the morals of my race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood in The Bronx | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

First witness: New York's Senator Robert F. Wagner, daddy of the Act. Whether he will stand pat, publicly voice a belief that NLRB has gone astray but that the statute is as good as ever or offer some compromise amendments of his own, Bob Wagner refused to say. Last week the Administration, which generally looks to Bob Wagner for advice on Labor matters, significantly omitted the Wagner Act amendment from its list of ten "preferred" items on the Senate calendar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wagner Charta | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...declared the literary psycho-analysts have gone astray in applying their methods, of drawing great conclusions from dubious and unimportant facts, to Dostoievsky. After declaring unsatisfactory all biographies of Dostoievsky, he announced that he had justed started such a biography...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simmons Talks on Russian Novelist | 11/22/1938 | See Source »

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