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Word: baa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palmolive Garbo" was David Selznick's epithet for his new property. The hard-veined, soft-souled gentlemen of the press felt differently. There was something about Miss Bergman-they clawed the air for adequate words-which made them coo and baa like fatuous old uncles. "Lunching with her," sighed Thornton Delehanty, "is like sitting down to an hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: For Whom? | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...recently-formed Players' Theatre group is presenting a second weekend run of its musical take-off on the features and foibles of life in Beantown. Bolstered by the advantage of first--night experience and a week of hard work in which to apply the numerous lessons of that experience, "Baa Baa Back Bay" has a good chance to graduate from the mediocre to the mighty fine in its appearances tonight and tomorrow night...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 2/28/1941 | See Source »

...want to be . . . A white Lamb, bright Lamb, Up-all-night Lamb, Good Lamb, baa-baa, untilI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gamboling Lambs | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...boardmen will be competing in faster company than any they have met this year. When three flashy New York two mile relay teams burned up the track and left the Crimson men only cinders to run on a lap in the lag at the BAA meet, Harvard got a preview of the show that will unfold this weekend...

Author: By Paul I. Carp, | Title: Quad Win Points Way for Showing In I.C.4A Games | 2/27/1940 | See Source »

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