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Word: carnivaleers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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T. H. White's well-timed, wild dialogues are suggestive of the better (not the best) comic strips. His Freudian overtones and contemporary analogies make the book "profound," in the publisher's opinion, as well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthurian Cocktail | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Secret of the Wizard of Oz is that there is no such person: there is only Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), a kindly, bungling old carnival seer. But the resourceful Professor has a bit of homely chicanery for each of his applicants, gives them all what they desire. No children'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Copyreader. Sitting in the slot of the Beaumont, Texas, Enterprise is a husky, blue-eyed, partly deaf Irishman named Carl Shannon, who left a good job as draftsman and designer in a Pittsburgh steel mill to become a newspaperman. After a turn in Pittsburgh he went to New York, landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Winter Carnival (United Artists-Walter Wanger). Ann Sheridan, born Clara Lou Sheridan in Dallas, Tex. 24 years ago, left college for Hollywood when she won a Paramount "Search for Beauty" contest in her neighborhood in 1933. After two years on the Paramount payroll, during which she failed to set any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

His admirers call Clinton Norman Howard "The Little Giant," because he looks and spouts like old-time Orator Stephen Douglas. As superintendent of the International Reform Federation in Washington he is No. 1 U. S. reformer. His potential enemies, from Billiards to Theatre, are catalogued alphabetically in the Federation'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reformer | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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