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Word: fisherman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horrible though it will seem to the Legion of Decency, she is up to her old tricks, kissing with her mouth open, listening unabashed to lines like, "Take off your clothes and stay awhile." Spencer Tracy is the cocky tuna fisherman whom she sticks to even though Nick Appopolis, the fish-cannery owner, assaults her virtue with a matrimonial offer and a neckpiece made of well-bleached cat-fur. When her fisherman leaves her to go on the bum, she steals a roll of bills for him from Nick. Sentenced for this, she gets out of prison through a drainpipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 20, 1936 | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...abomination, that they will best serve themselves and their mother by eschewing men. working hard, saving their money so that they can all go to Hollywood one day and be rich and famed. Daughter Violet, after smashing one man with a water bottle, goes off with a fisherman. Plump Daughter Clarice, starving to be a tap dancer, succumbs naturally to a German carpenter and a mess of pork chops. And only after a sailor has left her with a baby does Daughter Ruby peek into her parents' bedroom, find that her mother was fooling all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...door. Critics roundly approved such moments which had the surge of a powerful musical drama. But :here were bristling arguments over many of the set songs for which Gershwin's brother Ira helped write lyrics. A lullaby called Summer Time is likely to become a bestseller. Fisherman Jake sings A Woman Is a Sometime Thing. Porgy's big song begins rowdily with I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' and Nuttin's Plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk Opera | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...Edward of Wales in a Provencal fisherman's wide cobalt blue trousers and short-sleeved white shirt with blue bars across the chest, turned up at Cannes dressed exactly like most other swanksters. One of H. R. H.'s entourage of six smoked a corncob pipe labeled "From Missouri." No. 1 Woman remained beauteous Baltimore-born Mrs. Ernest A. Simpson, wife of a complacent Briton (TIME, Sept. 24, March 11). Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson and H. R. H. were vexed by an absurd pamphlet purporting to have been written by her and titled What Charmed the Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Died. "Dusty" Matthews, 86, retired fisherman, "friend of King Edward"; in Eastbourne, England. Seeing George V and Queen Mary strolling last spring, Fisherman Matthews pumped the monarch's hand, said: "I'm pleased to meet you, Captain. I knew your mum and dad" (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 19, 1935 | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

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