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Word: bijou (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clearly, what brought audiences back to the Bijou time and again was not the thrill of solving the mystery before Chan did but the homely wisdom of the sub-gumshoe, a man who always had an axiom to grind. With articles and conjunctions thrown to the wind, Charlie's observations usually made up in specific gravity what they lacked in grammar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Movies: Sub-Gumshoe | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Messieur: Un vrai bijou! Vous avez aborde un sujet fort difficile avec une main de maitre. Mes plus sinceres felicitations. PAUL DUCHASTEL Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1964 | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres, Inc., who viewed television as a sort of mammoth neighborhood movie house with seats for 165 million. Goldenson and Treyz set about to win a following among U.S. televiewers by feeding them very much the same sort of fare they used to see down at the Bijou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Rub-Out | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Though he admits to being only a noodler himself, Simonton never lacks for live music. Famed Theater Organist Jesse Crawford-"the Poet of the Organ"-comes over to practice on the Wurlitzer three days a week. And when Simonton reels off a silent flicker in his basement Bijou, he always has on hand an oldtime organist to accompany the picture with the requisite mysteriosos and agitatos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Bigger Than Stereo | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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