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Word: dicks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Benchley'(Sun. 10 p. m., CBS) supplies the madness for Old Gold's Melody and Madness program, his first radio series. Melody by Baritone Dick Todd, Clarinetist Artie Shaw's orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Hard to Get (Warner Bros.), like The Cowboy and the Lady, deals with romance between a poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald. Maurice Leo, Richard Macauley, Wally Klein, Joseph Schrank), it shows a few deviations from pattern which give it an unexpected and agreeable individuality. Sample: when the heiress (as in The Cowboy and the Lady) adopts the invariable ruse of impersonating her own maid, her father, instead of objecting, happily arranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...head over all this aggregation that is Harvard football--Dick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

Neither wild horses nor galloping consumption nor a hurricane could keep Vag from the Yale Bowl tomorrow afternoon. He must be there to see the final football bow of these Seniors who, with their capable Junior and Sophomore compatriots, will go "all out" for Dick--and for the rest of us who are Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

Once-beaten Lowell, with a squad of 17 players, will meet sixth-place Pierson minus the services of star back Dick Lewis, but the Bellboys appear to hold the edge over their Blue opponents. The Slaves, however, took their last four games to provide a whirlwind finish to their season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, Adams, Eliot Gridmen Play at New Haven Tomorrow in Wind-up Games | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

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