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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Febrile, fantastic Jean Cocteau, France's No. i playboy of the intellect, left the Paris Ritz to live on a houseboat and do war work. His war work, said he, would be writing a play about love, explained: "Love and War are the only two eternal themes. But when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Finnish Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius refused offers of haven all over Europe, said he would sit tight at his Ainola estate near Helsinki. Finnish Runner Paavo Nurmi taped the windows of his Helsinki sporting goods shop, went ofi to enlist as a chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Denied a further extension of his four-month alien visitor's permit, rabbity British Earl Bertrand Arthur William Resell, famed libertarian logician, found he must leave the U. S. by year's end. Not anxious for U. S. citizenship, but wishing to qualify for a permanent chair of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Selznick read the synopsis. With the sad fate of So Red the Rose in mind, he was in no hurry to pay $50,000 for another Civil War book, and a first novel to boot. But when Selznick International's Board Chairman John Jay ("Jock") Whitney offered to buy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The late leggy, lantern-jawed Sidney Howard was one of the ablest, most dependable scripters who ever turned his successful plays into equally successful movies (The Silver Cord, Yellow Jack, Dodsworth). Selznick considered Playwright Howard "a great constructionist" and turned to him in his hour of need. After a brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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