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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...According to the best etymological authority TIME could muster, Reader Kennedy's shrewd guess comes as close as anybody's; but "all get-out" is older than covered-wagon days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Back in Cannes, Dancer Daniels blurbed: "Herr Hitler spoke to me in German, and I don't know what the word for it is but a translator said he said I had marvelous movements of the body and legs, and I guess that meant flexes. He said, 'You are the best dancer I have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fuhrer and Flexes | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...said, "It seems that a good proportion of the members of both the American and English stage have served their apprenticeship in college and school dramatics. As a matter of fact, college dramatics seem to be almost a stepping-stone to success in the theatre. As for myself, I guess I am the exception to the rule; for I have had only four years of schooling in my life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Orson Welles Says "Five Kings" Is Return to True Shakespearian Form | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...late for breakfast, and I guess the beard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

Business. Estimates of the number of paintings Picasso has produced vary from 1,200 to 10,000. Best guess is somewhere between 3,000 and 4,500. Since Rubens, with a whole "factory" of apprentices, turned out less than 3,000, it is likely that Picasso has been the most prolific first-rater who ever lived. In any logical system of supply and demand, a Picasso ought to be cheap. But Picassos are notoriously not cheap, and for this there are two explanations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art's Acrobat | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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