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Word: doe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Jay Doe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sample Letter For Out of State Registrants | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

...since my home address is within the jurisdiction of your local Board, and I am only staying here temporarily as a student, I am not seeking to have jurisdiction over my registration transferred to the Cambridge Local Board, except for classification and physical examination. Very truly yours, John Jay Doe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sample Letter For Out of State Registrants | 10/25/1940 | See Source »

...feet and conforming with the prevailing architecture of the Yard, is much solider and more enduring than a new tutor. But perhaps we could get around that, and give each teacher a bronze plaque to wear around his neck, reading: "This man donated to Harvard by John Doe '87. Enter here to grow in wisdom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HERE'S ONE FOR THE BOOKS | 10/3/1940 | See Source »

...stories explaining that 1940 would see a swing from heavy drama to relaxing comedy and musicals. At Fox, Darryl Zanuck wound up The Great Profile, in which John Barrymore does a savage satire on his scrambled life. Frank Capra was te diously struggling over his latest comedy, Meet John Doe. Comics Jack Benny and Fred Allen were immortalizing their radio feud on celluloid at the Paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Busy Bodies | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Picture. At first glance All This and Heaven Too seemed to have almost everything that could possibly be crowded into it. It had impressive length (two hours, 20 minutes). It had shrewd, hard bitten Bette Davis to play the love-crossed governess; doe-eyed, dove-voiced Charles Boyer to play her great friend, the Duke de Praslin; hectic, handsome, breast-clutching Barbara O'Neil to play his insanely jealous Duchess. It had three charming, flounce-skirted children to play the Praslin daughters - Virginia Weidler, June Lockhart, Ann Todd. It had Richard Nichols to play the Duke's pathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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