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Word: cossack (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Again (Universal). One day this year Hungarian-born Producer Joe Pasternak had an idea for a U. S. western. He would take German-born Marlene Dietrich, cast her as French-born entertainer in a Wild West saloon. He would take Russian-born Mischa Auer, cast him as an expatriate Cossack with a will to be a cow hand. He would take U. S.-born James Stewart, cast him as an easy-talking, no-gun sheriff who brings law'to lawless Bottle Neck, routs its bad men by using his head instead of his trigger finger. Producer Pasternak allowed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Dressed in black, with a Cossack hat perched on her blonde head, Corinne had stationed herself in a doorway on Main Street at the hour when Dallas goes to work. There she waited until Brooks Coffman sauntered by, busily talking to a woman companion. Corinne put her hand in her purse, stepped out behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Terrific | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

With a special open-air concert scheduled in the Lowell House court-yard, following a tour of the Yard, the world-famous Don Cossack chorus makes its debut at the University today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell House Concert Is Feature of Today's Cossack Chorus Visit | 12/2/1939 | See Source »

...There are 330 peasants, 465 workmen, 65 soldiers, 187 women, 870 Party members. There are 53 presidents of collective farms, an 80-year-old scientist, a 19-year-old textile worker, a Cossack writer, an actress. There is Comrade Deputy Olga Leonova, 42, whose official biography begins "Stern and miserable was the childhood of O. F. Leonova." There is Deputy Bach, 82, exiled in 1878, whose record begins, "A. N. Bach has lived a long and beautiful life." There is Alexander Bussy-gin, 32, who was so electrified during the Stakhanov movement that he forged 1,001 crankshafts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dreams and Realities | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...rope, all got under his skin. The pushing mob didn't satisfy his desire for companionship, and of course, neither did Billy. It was spring, and his fancies had turned to where they usually did at that time of year. As he handed the tickets to the scarlet-clad Cossack at the door, he was complaining to himself, "This is no job for a college man, and why can't the kid's nurse take him, anyway?" He had just decided that he was bored with it all, when he missed Billy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

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