Word: ida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Ida Minerva Tarbell, 86, crusading journalist, onetime "Terror of the Trusts" (The History of the Standard Oil Company); of pneumonia; in Bridge port, Conn. Daughter of a Pennsylvania oilman driven to the wall by the Rocke fellers, onetime seminary teacher Ida Tarbell gained fame for herself and thousands of new readers for McClure's with her 1896 serialized Life of Lincoln. In 1902-04 she helped bust the oil trust with a series of 19 McClure's articles; they brought in a gusher of public resentment that flowed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which...
David Lichine, Rostov-born, Paris-trained alumnus of Ida Rubinstein's troupe and one of the few choreographers who is equally famed as a dancer of male leads. A rival of Massine, Lichine resembles him in his love for flamboyant spectacle (Fair at Sorochinsk, Francesca da Rimini) and sophisticated satire (Helen of Troy, Graduation Ball...
Thank Your Lucky Stars (Eddie Cantor, Bette Davis, Dinah Shore, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, some 39 other stars and starlets of the Warner galactic system; TIME...
Thank Your Lucky Stars (Warner), the most crowded constellation Warner Bros, has ever assembled, surrounds Eddie Cantor with such newcomers to song & dance as Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Dinah Shore, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan and Alexis Smith, who know their way around in this sort of work, help out. Veteran comics S. Z. Sakall and Edward Everett Horton help still more. But the picture is most amusing as a sort of glorified Amateur Night...
...Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino and George Tobias (pinch-hitting for Humphrey Bogart, who was scared to involve himself in so unrefined an act) yowling and prancing through a frenzied, nightmarish parody of The Dreamer and the whole hierarchy of "dream" songs...