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Word: got (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday marked the first return to actual contact work for tackle Pete Elser, recovering from a badly bruised shoulder. Wingman George Haydock got a red shirt yesterday, bringing the total up to 28. Other recent additions have been tackle Tom O'Loughlin and bucker Bill Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TORBIE MACDONALD GETS LEG INJURY IN PUNTING PRACTICE | 10/3/1939 | See Source »

...popped up again with a novel, Mars in the House of Death, and an account of where he has been all this time. He quit Hollywood because: 1) doctors told him the pace would kill him shortly, 2) he felt he was getting in a rut. Well-heeled (he got about $125,000 a picture, plus 25% of profits), he bought Ciné studios in Nice, decided to travel. Until two years ago, when he settled in Mexico, he had lived in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Spain, Egypt, learned Arabic, got 20 pieces of his own sculpture bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romantic's Return | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Protesting a 30-day sentence for drunkenness in a San Francisco, Calif, court, Frank Owen waved a blueprint, shouted: "Look, judge, I've invented a submarine that will control the world. I've got a date at the Federal building. . . . Thousands of lives will be lost." Said the judge: "All right, get out and save the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Minneapolis, a policeman nabbed one Marcia Schneider for speeding. "Where do you think you're going, to a fire?" said he. "No, I've got one with me," said she, pointing to a blaze in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Angels Wash Their Faces" even got its title idea from a previous picture. "Hotel For Women" was a confused imitation of "The Women" and "Stage Door" with the spontaneity of neither. The only original element was the appearance of Elsa Maxwell who was poked into the script in such a slip-shod fashion that she almost seemed to be posing for a movie interview rather than taking part in the picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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