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Word: cecile (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cache. In Pocatello, Idaho, police investigating a pool-hall theft noticed a suspicious bulge on Cecil Jones's face, forced open his mouth, extracted fourteen $20 bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 10, 1945 | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Cecil Hinshaw, president of William Penn (Quaker) College at Oskaloosa, Iowa, described atomic bombing as a "barbaric, inhuman type of warfare. . . . Its use is unjustified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Doubts & Fears | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...once ordered sections deleted from Cecil B. de Mille's The King of Kings, because they showed the crucifixion and whipping of Christ. Movies discussing or starring Negroes have been ruthlessly excluded or edited, including Imitation of Life, Sensations of 1945, Brewster's Millions (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Higher Criticism in Memphis | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Gloomy Esmond Cecil Harmsworth, second Viscount Rothermere, found her delightful. After he divorced his first wife, she became his weekend party hostess at Mereworth Castle in Kent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lady Rothermere's Dream | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Profits, Not Art. In their early years in Hollywood, Thomas as a producer-writer and Pine as an associate producer (he was once Cecil B. de Mille's assistant) learned that poor planning skyrockets overhead and production costs. Often everybody on the set is idle while the director works out a new plot twist. So Pine & Thomas reduced their plots to two inartistic formulas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: It's Not Art But ... | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

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