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Word: brainstorm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone on Broadway except the child actors remembers Percy Hammond, either with delight or something approaching brainstorm. Last week a few of Percy Hammond's intimates had gift copies of a new collection of his work. This Atom In The Audience (his own phrase), privately printed by his free-lancing son John Hammond of Newtown, Conn. Other envious Hammond admirers were tickled to learn that the book could be had on order from bookstores generally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hammond Speaks Again | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...Roach has had a brainstorm. In a fit of temporary insanity he conceived a movie combining Disney fantasy, Runyon plot, West-Lamarr sex, and Laurel and Hardy slapstick. The chaotic and riotous result is "The Housekeeper's Daughter." Rarely on the screen has there been a set of characters doing more incongruous things. Rarely has the screen seen a funnier comedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

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