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Word: hollywood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Institution, was in Rochester, N. Y. showing members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a cartoon of himself. The sketch: big-mustached, ponderous Dr. Abbot sitting atop California's Mount Wilson with an "Abbot sun and moon measurer," while a little bear points to a Hollywood constellation of stars among which a chunky one represents Mae West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Scientists in Rochester | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Bloomingdale, N. J., police jailed Eng Wing Koon, 27, Manhattan laundryman who proposed to earn his way to Hollywood by tying his three-foot pigtail on roadside trees, swinging painfully for five minutes, collecting fees from interested passersby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Prize | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...Hollywood, Cinema Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke (Thin Man, Naughty Marietta) went bowling for the first time, forgot to let go of the bowl. Towed like the tail of a comet half way down the alley, he rose with a sheepish face, a sprained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...world's first regular daily television programs are scheduled to begin about July 1 in (1 Berlin, Germany, 2 Hollywood, California, 3 New York City, 4 North London, England, 5 Rome, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs: Current Affairs, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...current Theatre Guild production and Pulitzer prize play-Idiot's Delight by Robert Sherwood-is a satire on (1 war, fascism and nationalism, 2 the New Deal, 3 Hollywood, 4 big business in America, 5 the Townsend Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs: Current Affairs, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

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