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Word: davision (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Encased in a wheel chair, the egomaniacal, asp-tongued celebrity commandeers the household, forces his hosts to use only the upstairs, runs up a $784 phone bill conversing with all points of the compass, tries to smash his secretary's (Bette Davis) love affair, persuades his hosts' children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1942 | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Although there is hardly room for the rest of the cast to sandwich in much of a performance between this fattest of fat parts, Bette Davis, hair up, neuroses gone, is excellent as Woolley's lovesick secretary. Miss Sheridan, without benefit of any noticeable direction, looks as lovely, acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1942 | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

With no loud cheers from either labor or management, the President this week named William Hammatt Davis chairman of his War Labor Board. The Administration took the silence as a tribute to the impartiality of Mr. Davis as chairman of the now-defunct National Defense Mediation Board. Other members of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: War Labor Board | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

The President's wife would no more cross a picket line than Queen Victoria would have painted her fingernails.* She marched to the box office, turned in her tickets and got her money back. To protests that the pickets were unfair, Mrs. Roosevelt answered firmly: "Fair or not fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: First Lady's Last Word | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Married. Cynthia Vansittart, daughter of Robert Gilbert, Baron Vansittart; and Frederick C. Whitman, son of the late Davis Cup Tennist Malcolm D. Whitman; in San Francisco.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 19, 1942 | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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