Word: blimped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exude real steam, and a giant box of Super Suds that spouts 5,000 large bubbles a minute. Forthcoming are a three-story soda pop ad in which full glasses will effervesce real balloons, some of which will contain tickets entitling the holder to a free drink, and a blimp-sized orange that will seem to drip juice into a building-high glass...
...flat betrayal of a lovely girl [TIME, April 8]. As author of Paulette Goddard's first screen test and as the fortunate producer of several of her pictures since, I am in a position to assure you that we have never felt it necessary to call in the Blimp Section of the Make-up Department...
Most popular films: The Way to the Stars (U.S. title: Johnny in the Clouds); The Man in Grey. Henry V was fifth, In Which We Serve eighth, Colonel Blimp 15th; Caesar and Cleopatra was not mentioned. Most of the nine leaders were made under the J. Arthur Rank banner...
Charming Cinemactress Kerr (Major Barbara, Colonel Blimp) plays the early, mousey Cathie as though she herself sniffled through breakfast every morning in bathrobe and muffler. She also looks miraculously fetching in the blue serge suit and black cotton stockings of "a Wren. Versatile Cinemactor Donat (The 39 Steps, Goodbye, Mr. Chips) seems happy in what is probably the freest, freshest comedy role he has ever had, and grows young even more gracefully than he grew old in the James Hilton heartwringer...
Among top contenders was Boston, which had flown handsome Governor Maurice J. Tobin, and other leaders, to London. At the State House, a bas-relief map of Greater Boston was ready for delegates; there was talk of using a blimp for reconnaissance...