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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four years later Richard Knight had a $200,000 bank account, was earning more than $80,000 a year. He specialized in sensational divorce cases. Not yet 30, Lawyer Knight lived in a suite at the St. Regis. He drove a Cadillac, had spent a week on the Riviera with a celebrated prima donna, boasted that he called Mrs. Vincent Astor by her first name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Stage One, Paul Whiteman waiting his turn on Stage Two, Rudy Vallee in the wings, ready to croon. The announcer carried on one-sided conversations with the great names on the record labels, took listeners in their imagination to a Make-Believe Ballroom, far from any two-by-four radio studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Pitchman's Progress | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Josephine L. Rathbone worries about people who worry. Dr. Rathbone, a stocky, cheerful little woman who rowed four years on the Wellesley crew and got three degrees in physiology, decided a few years ago that one of the chief troubles with modern men & women is that they do not know how to relax. So, at Columbia University's Teachers College, she started a relaxing clinic. Last week, announcing that in the spring she would give a course to teach people how to teach people how to relax, Dr. Rathbone reported some of her observations on what makes people tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Relax | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Disadvantages of U. S. music films at present: 1) Their fidelity is poorer than that of the best discs; 2) the mechanism which plays them makes a noise; 3) high price of film makes film recordings four to eight times as expensive as phonograph discs. A more important obstacle: a sudden change from disc to film recording would dislocate the $36,000,000 record business, make all present phonographs, record collections and recording apparatus obsolete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music on Film | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Rathbone) in the cellars of the Tower of London circa 1480. There, amidst moaning victims, clanking chains and chopping blocks, Villain Rathbone (the crookbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester) shows Monster Karloff (Mord, the club-footed constable of the Tower) how to satisfy an active homicidal mania by murdering the four candidates who are preventing Duke Richard from becoming King Richard III of England. By the time Mord and Richard have killed Henry VI, the Duke of Clarence, Edward V and his brother, they are killed themselves at the battle of Bosworth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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