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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the cinema event for which the U. S. has palpitated for three years took place in Atlanta, Ga.-the premiere of Gone With the Wind.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

To Harry Hershfield, Manhattan cartoonist (Abie the Agent), went Charter No. 1 and chairmanship of the New York City chapter of the Grouch Club of America. Grouch Hershfield obligingly posed for news photographers, put his worst face forward (see cut).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Denied a further extension of his four-month alien visitor's permit, rabbity British Earl Bertrand Arthur William Resell, famed libertarian logician, found he must leave the U. S. by year's end. Not anxious for U. S. citizenship, but wishing to qualify for a permanent chair of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In a Los Angeles hospital lay Georgia Coleman, onetime (1932) Olympic champion diver, whose career was snipped short by infantile paralysis. Badly in need of an operation for a liver ailment, she was too weak to have it, too poor to pay for it. Promoters of the California's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Fairbanks was an ordinary young ham, except for his superior muscles, until one day on the stage in a serious moment he recalled a gag another actor had told him offstage a few minutes before. Against his will, irresistibly, he grinned. The effect was electric. Irresistibly Doug Fairbanks grinned and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Leap | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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