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Word: escorting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their personal relationship, at one time apparently tender, changed to a purely professional and far more binding one. Dietrich went out with other men, but on important Hollywood occasions von Sternberg was still her escort. It was at his counsel that she let Mamoulian direct her in Song of Songs. The picture was not wholly a success. After this partial failure Dietrich returned to von Sternberg. They made The Scarlet Empress, based on the life of Catherine of Russia. It was a picture characterized by a peculiar violence of background and a remarkable tedium of pace. By making a much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Garden of Allah | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...slouching wisecracks, grimy proverbs and reckless, light-hearted double-entendres without which the great mass of the U. S. population would be almost inarticulate. In go West Young Man, she delivers a full quota which will doubtless become, immediately and indelibly, part of the U. S. jargon. When her escort demands a quiet table for two, her comment is, "You know, seclusive." Worried, she remarks: "I must have a moment or two ... to commute with myself." To her young inventor she coins a proverb: "I always said 'Science is Golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...rule, to be acceptable, must be the same for all the Houses and must be universally enforced. An adaptation of the Oxford-card system seems advisable. It is recommended by its simplicity as well as its efficiency. According to this, a young woman might be entertained after her escort has checked her name and time of arrival at the office. Upon leaving, the couple would check out, and a failure to do this would bring disciplinary action by the University. As for the hours, they should be decided by the council of House Masters. The present schedule of from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EYE OF HEAVEN | 10/2/1936 | See Source »

Speeding from Washington by train, Mr. Roosevelt will change to a car on the outskirts of the city and under an escort of Cambridge police and secret service men will be conducted to Harvard Square where he is scheduled to arrive about 10 o'clock in the morning. The exact itinerary that he will follow will not be made known until this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO ARRIVE IN CAMBRIDGE | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

President Roosevelt and all other conferees had been driven up to a screened-off ground-floor entrance of the carefully screened, locked and guarded Capitol, whisked up to Governor Herring's office in a freshly-painted elevator. Governor Landon's escort took him around to the plaza in front of the Capitol. The crowd got a good look as. with more smiles and hat-waving, he trotted up the long steps. Once inside, he was led to a washroom. As he emerged, there appeared at another door, on the arm of his son John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strange Interlude | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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