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Word: bereted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warren William as a ferociously whimsical detective, Bette Davis, last year's Academy Award winner, in the trifling role of a jewel thief, and a platinum blonde newcomer named Marie Wilson as a squeaky secretary. Typical shot: the detective rebuking a baby-faced gunman for wearing a beret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 3, 1936 | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Pushing back his blue beret and twirling his spectacles, the bearded dean of British banking was then asked if some of the gold which caused the expansion in bank reserves would not soon return to Europe. Expressing a facetious wish which the Reserve Board feels will be fulfilled in all seriousness, Governor Norman replied : "I hope not. You can keep it. We had all the trouble digging it out of the ground, but you can keep it. You are too rich over here, but you can keep your gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brakes Tightened | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...France one sample of how it proposed to get striking workers out of the factories. With 80,000 stayin strikers still on strike and farm laborers threatening a strike of their own, sole employer victory was the decision of a Pau court that strikers' occupation of a Pau beret factory was "illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No, Without Bayonets | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...tournament since, got a 66 in his first qualifying round, a 69 in his first championship round and then, as usual, slumped. A strange young Texan named Joe Ezar astounded a Scottish gallery less by his qualifying scores (73 & 75) than by the way he made them, wearing a beret which he tossed in the air after good shots, scarcely glancing at his putts, wisecracking loudly to his caddy. Colonel William Lawson Little, watching his famed son & namesake try to win his second major British title of the season, found that a $1,200 letter of credit and several cashable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Open | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...Coat and Glove (RKO). A married woman (Barbara Robbins) visits a young artist's flat, carelessly leaves her beret behindc Her lawyer-husband (Ricardo Cortez) goes to the flat, finds there the artist's discarded mistress (Dorothy Burgess), tries unsuccessfully to prevent her from shooting herself, departs without noticing that he has left his glove on the floor. The hat, the glove and the overcoat on which his mistress expires are introduced as evidence when the artist (John Beal) is tried for her murder. His attorney is the husband of the lady who owns the beret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 6, 1934 | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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