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Word: cutup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge, he made friends with future Philosopher Bertrand Russell and future Diplomat Maurice Baring. Cutup Baring sometimes filled Marsh's French pastry with quinine, sometimes wrote such T. S. Eliot poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Puckish Proust | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

WILL SHAKSPERE: FACTOTUM AND AGENT - Alden Brooks - Round Table Press ($3). Somebody else tries to prove that Shakspere, the country cutup, could not have written Shakespeare's plays and poems. Iconoclast Brooks says the real "Shakespeare" was a syndicate (Marlowe, Lyly, Greene, Peele, Nashe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Only last week did Playwright MacArthur's first wife, a Chicago newspaper woman, drop her alienation of affections suit against Actress Hayes. That legal tangle was merely a fraction of the excitement that ebullient Mr. MacArthur has brought into his wife's life since 1928. A great cutup, he goes in for such japes as spreading strange lingerie around the home in his wife's absence to see what she will do upon her return. Irregularities like these have evoked such effusive sympathy for Miss Hayes that her husband once thought of founding a Poor Helen Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Helen Millennial | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...Meets Girl. Adventures of two cutup authors in a cinema studio. Funniest Hollywood show since Once In A Lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...personalities were elected: Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez' son from Valencia, and that plump aerial cutup, Major Ramon Franco, who broke his leg last week when a campaign platform collapsed under him, from Barcelona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Election | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

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