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Word: delilah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided opinion that Oscar-Winner Olivia de Havilland made her discovery that "It's the adjectives that count" [TIME, March 31] not from "reading a lot of books between scripts," but from her husband, Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, author of the novel Delilah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Married. Olivia de Havilland, 30, British-born cinemactress (Anthony Adverse, Captain Blood), sister of Cinemactress Joan Fontaine; and Marcus Goodrich, 48, screen writer, novelist (bestseller Delilah); she for the first time, he for the fifth; in Wilton, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Cecil B. De Mille (The Ten Commandments, King of Kings) said he planned to film Samson and Delilah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Both camps are dead-sure of victory. Miss O. U. Kidd, Radcliffe '43 (slightly retarded) has come forth with this statement, "What Delilah did to Samson and what Frankie did to Johnnie ain't half of what we're goin' to do to the Crimson crew tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'CLIFFE CREW TO FIGHT FOR FEMALE'S FREEDOM | 5/18/1945 | See Source »

...modify the hardy rehearsal technique he had developed during 40 years with boys' choirs (stretching the singers out on table and piano tops for breathing exercises): "Of course, in the case of the sisters that just isn't done. . . . [They] are dedicated to an unworldly life. No Delilah business, you know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Finn's Jennies | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

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