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Word: elsas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Raffles has met Walt Disney, Charlie McCarthy, David Selznick, many other bigwigs. Elsa Maxwell gave a party for the bird. Paramount signed Raffles up for eight weeks at $3,500 to play opposite Dorothy Lamour in her forthcoming Rainbow Island. Qn the lot Raffles' dressing room, complete with nameplate, is next to Dorothy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Bird | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Gloria Swanson, No. 1 fashion plate among the silent cinema sirens, gave Interviewer Elsa Maxwell her considered opinion on the reason she had always had to play seductresses: "Because I was quiet, people always thought I knew more about life and love than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Losers | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Elsa Shore, soubrette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...toyed with uncommunicative Cinecomic Roland Young ("I think his mother was frightened by a clam"). In its time Duffy's has found similar salutes for shapely Dancer Vera Zorina ("The terpsicorpse from the ballet"), Information Please' s Clifton Fadiman ("What do you know - besides every thing?"), portly Elsa Maxwell ("Speaking of the Four Hundred, how're you and the other 398?"), and the Lone Ranger, whom Archie steadily addressed as Lone ("Lone, say hello to little Wilfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New York Hick | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Elsa Maxwell (The Life of Barbara Button) announced in her syndicated column that to Columnist Dorothy Thompson, soon to be married, she had given a wedding present of a pair of blankets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Literary Life | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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