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Word: jewells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part as a tribute to London's late great Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, who started his famed trade schools for orphans in 1867, Lord Jeff picks up the history of young Geoffrey Braemer (Bartholomew) at the moment when he is caught acting as a blind for two daring jewel thieves who have made themselves his guardians. Russell-Cotes School, to which Geoffrey is remanded in lieu of the reformatory, is a naval training institution which seems to be a model of its kind, with good-hearted Herbert Mundin to teach the boys sailors' knots and coach the lifeboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...signals of unselfishness. In White Banners, the minister is replaced by a warm-hearted maid-of-all-work named Hannah (Fay Bainter). Otherwise, the formula is much the same. When Hannah straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher (Claude Rains), she turns out to be a jewel with a heart of gold. Besides lavishly fulfilling her exacting duties, Hannah sells the contents of the family basement at fabulous prices, facilitates a budding romance between young Sally Ward (Bonita Granville) and Peter Trimble (Jackie Cooper), stimulates Paul Ward to invent not one but two different types of automatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

MURDER ON SAFARI-Elspeth Huxley- Harper ($2). A jewel theft and two murders on a big-game hunting party in Africa. Addicts may spot the killer, but will probably not be able to guess his method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries of the Month: May 30, 1938 | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...first camera kiss as a ranking star, however, is given to Gene Raymond while the two of them, cast as a pair of jewel thieves, are hiding from the police in the house of a once-famed pianist (Lewis Stone). During the starry embrace the dark-eyed maiden shows no lack of promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...painted frog from the Amazon, whose jewel-like skin contains poison used by natives for arrows and darts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Wake of the Beagle | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

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