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Word: fibber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fibber's garrulous tarradiddles, the broguish comeuppances Molly metes out to him, the dated didos of his numerous stooges, are as familiar as the pattern of the living-room rug. Fibber is an incorrigible blowhard, but a game guy to boot. With nonpareil confidence, he tries his luck at anything, from barbering to running an army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

weekday radio entertainers (just behind Sunday top-liners Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen) are an old time, tank-town vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...program earned the Jordans and Quinn $125 a week altogether. Out of it developed Fibber McGee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Fibber McGee (Johnson's Wax) told Gracie he has heard whispers about Dewey, Hull, Taft and Garner all heading for the White House. Were they just rumors? Said Gracie: "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...cinema box offices) is traditionally Sunday. This season another big radio night has popped up to plague cinemen: Tuesday. Of the 45 U. S. weekly radio shows credited with better than average audiences by Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting for January,† ten were Tuesday-nighters, and three of these-Fibber McGee & Molly, Bob Hope, Pot o' Gold-were among radio'seight leading programs. Other Tuesday-night mainstays: Big Town, Information Please, We, the People, Aldrich Family, Battle of the Sexes, Court of Missing Heirs, Cavalcade of America, Second Husband, Uncle Walter's Doghouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Tuesday Night | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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