Word: canard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of her performance in The Man Who Played God, Warners signed her to an eleven-year contract. Her hair rinsed to an ash blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME...
...family consisting of mother and six calves [TIME, Sept. 27] and certain comments, associated therewith, on the female sterility of mixed sex dual births, prompt me to suggest that TIME'S Letters column put out a feeler for more extensive and confirming information on this biological fact or canard, whichever...
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TIME, Oct. 25, reporting the repercussions in New York City politics caused by the MARCH OF TIME'S filming of Fusion Mayor LaGuardia, says that Tammany Hall controls Radio City's Music Hall. This is such a gross canard that I do not see how TIME ever dared to foist it on the public...
...Music Hall canard is worse than bad news reporting; it is a printer's error. TIME wrote two statements coupled by the word "and": "Tammany Hall still controls the Borough of Manhattan pretty thoroughly, and Radio City's Music Hall, M. O. T. first-run house in New York, is the finest theatre in Manhattan." The last six words were omitted-with horrifying results...