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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jessie Matthews does her scampering best throughout this gallimaufry, manages to appear at times an appealing if toothy bit of cockney femininity. What gives Gangway a slightly embarrassing quality is the earnest brightness with which its British characters mimic American parts of speech. Though they are almost letter-perfect and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Broadway Melody of 1938 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Mrs. Caroline Whipple (Binnie Barnes), wife of a confection tycoon, owns a horse named Star Gazer, beloved by Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell) whose father bred him. With the horse, Manhattan-bound in a stockcar, Horsetrainers Sonny (George Murphy) and Peter (Buddy Ebsen) find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 30, 1937 | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

There is nothing a cop likes better than to catch someone in a lie. Our favorite instance of this sort is the time a traffic policeman in the town of North Woodstock, New Hampshire, stopped a car for speeding. The driver was a woman. "Where you from?" the cop demanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Coincidence-of-the-Week | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

Critics paid especial attention to Todros Geller's swart, black-hooded Spanish Woman, to Macena Barton's solid black-browed Rosana in Purple, to E. Millman's Resting-two vagrants in a -phouse, one sitting on a barrel, the other lolling on a green mattress. Visitors stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Charter Show | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Miss Ederle, now grown matronly, marked the 11th anniversary of her swim last week at her home in Hempstead, L. I. Said she: "I'm 30 now, an old lady. I don't go swimming any more. I go bathing."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 23rd | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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