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...Cutup. In Roscoe, Calif., John Honeycutt hacked his wife to pieces with a butcher knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...Best cutup: Beatrice Lillie, as Beatrice Lillie in The Seven Lively Arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtain Call | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...picture aerates a lot of its staleness with pace, surface wit, some crisp acting. As a henpecked satyr, Roland Young is still the alltime master of twiddle, the fatuous innuendo, the Britannic bleat. Fred MacMurray is an experienced cutup too. But some cinemaddicts may feel that Paulette Goddard is on the brink of overstatement when she exclaims: "Every time I see him I get weak in the knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Best cutup: Bobby Clark as blustering, lily-livered Bob Acres in The Rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Broadway Blackout | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...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 »

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