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Word: cot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlestown Prison, Boston, Mrs. Edith Barlow's husband wanted his habitual narcotics. Mrs. Barlow stuffed a goodly supply in a rubber finger cot, placed it in her mouth. As she kissed a friendly prisoner, whom in ruse she called her brother, she tongued the drug-stuffed cot into his mouth. A guard caught them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...production companies utilize the spare time of the stars on contract to them. It is an unusually good one-rapid, handsome, brightened with flashes of wit probably put in by Elsie Janis, who supervised it. After Leon Errol has put on a hilarious act on a hospital cot, trying to roll himself into a three-quarter blanket, the audience is informed that he was just "dying to introduce the next sketch." The usual parodies include a mystery story with Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes and William Powell as Philo Vance, and Harry Green singing something called "I'm Isidore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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