Word: janet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small Town Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemactress Janet Gaynor occupies a unique niche in Hollywood. She is one of the half dozen pre-talkie stars who are still front rank box-office attractions. This phenomenal record has been made in the face of the fact that for ten years she has been playing, with superficial variations but no real exceptions, one role, that of Cinderella. The news that, loaned to MGM, she was to appear in a Ben Ames Williams story originally picked for Jean Harlow started hopes that Miss Gaynor's marathon might be about to end. Small...
...Guest the wonder of the staff for the ease with which he metamorphosed everyday trifles into folksy copy. When the Guests put their oleander out in the spring, it was duly recorded. It made the column again when they brought it in in the autumn. The children (Eddie Jr. & Janet), Mrs. Guest's pickles, a friend's fancy vest, were all grist for the rhymester's mill...
...OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PROVERBS-William George Smith and Janet E. Heseltine-Oxford University Press...
...many collections of English proverbs, Compiler William George Smith's is latest, most definitive. His Sisyphean task took him about 25 years, netted him over 10,000 proverbs. Because ill-health downed him before he could ready his book for the press, able Assistant Janet Heseltine supplied the introduction and index. Compiler Smith lists his proverbs alphabetically, dates the earliest published examples, gives illustrative quotations, but is not always able to explain their origins. Since most familiar proverbs need no translation for native English-speakers, few are given...
Margaret Sullavan contributes her most outstanding role in an outstanding. If relatively short career, as a charming and rather giddy Southern belle metamorphosed into a fine character by many sorrows. Walter Connelly and Janet Beecher as her father and mother share honors only with Margaret Sullavan. And even Randolph Scott, under inspired direction, makes the role of the pacifist convincing. "So Red the Rose" is genuinely worth seeing...