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Word: dished (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Armstrong is your dish, and you can't stand anything slow, sweet, or classical, then the program at the Fine Arts Theatre this week is not for you. But if you prefer your pre-exam cobwebs lulled and soothed away instead of blared and swung away, you'll find a pleasant two hours of relaxation in store for you there...

Author: By H. R. H., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/29/1937 | See Source »

...sport in the Litchfield Hills,--a keynote of country and city life combined. A chappie was entertaining the assembled throng telling about a golf game with one of his friends. It was a game where there'd been a certain amount of boozing before, and the caddie could dish one up from time to time. At the third hole, a short one of about a hundred yards, things were looping along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Definitely Hollywood's comic find of the year, Actor Gravet, who changed his name from Graavey lest "people get me mixed up with the national dish," is a 31-year-old French-Belgian, who learned his precise English at England's St. Paul's School which he attended during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...theatre owners continue to think they have to serve up a piece of boring tripe as a second feature on every program, when the first would draw well enough, is beyond comprehension. The dish at the Loew's is triply unpalatable. It is a bad plot, full of silly situations which aren't very amusing, and too long. It is poorly acted by Robert Young and Ann Sothern; Young is one of these boys who finds that looking peeved, frowning, flouncing about and shouting too loud is the only way he can impress personality on you. And last...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: STATE AND ORPHEUM | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...ponderous directorship of Charles Vidor. Flying to Hollywood, Producer Schulberg's attention was attracted to dark John Trent, .who suggests a cross between Richard Barthelmess and George Raft, in the coffee shop of the Kansas City Airport. When a female passenger said audibly: "That's a dish!" Producer Schulberg offered him a job. Trent's real name is Laverne Browne. Son of an Orange County, Calif, orange grower, he took up aviation while at college, barnstormed through Virginia, got a pilot's license, spent one year on TWA's New York-to-Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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