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Word: bettye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heat Wave is another play about the tropics where white women are careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Married. Betty Compton, 24, musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), much-reported golf-partner of Mayor James John Walker; and Edward Duryea Dowling, 26, dialog director for Paramount-Publix Studio, Astoria, N. Y.; secretly, in Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

You will probably never meet just the sort of English yokel Theodore Francis Powys writes about; you will certainly never run into a whole village of them. His Sexton Truggins, Farmer Beerfields, Dame Tastes are symbolic figures, but they are more than merely parabolic types. Such earthy behavior and marrowy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysterious Clods | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Three days later his sister Betty made news when she was notified that her $2,000 diamond ring had been recovered by Columbus, Ohio, police.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

The J. Cheever Cowdins gave a party the night before and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney gave one the night after. There were parties all week through Long Island's polo country. Big cars hurried along the roads, driving a little faster than usual for there were many trips to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Meadow Brook | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

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