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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Duncan sisters are funny -- no doubt about that, and a delightful little ninny called Imogene Coca helps considerably. Frances Williams, the featured lady, is presentable, but undistinguished. The review itself has a less central theme, if possible, than most; where the authors found their hodgepodge it is hard to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

Died. David ("Winkle") Brooks, 26, son-in-law of Vice President James Andrew Moffett of Standard Oil of California, nephew of Lady Astor and Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson; when he fell from a window of his Park Avenue apartment; in Manhattan. His wife's mother, Mrs. Adelaide Taft McMichael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Movers and Shakers, covering about five years of the ugly future, reveals that for Mabel Dodge the pace of pre-War U. S. life made such half-experiences impossible and drastic showdowns inevitable. Establishing a Manhattan salon at No. 23 Fifth Ave., she took the first decisive step of separating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Continued Story | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Make Way for a Lady (RKO) is a resounding contribution to the Five Little Peppers school of cinema, showing what happens when a suburban high-school girl (Anne Shirley) undertakes to manage the sex life of her widowed father (Herbert Marshall). Convinced that he is in love with a lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Implicit in the writing, acting and direction of Make Way for a Lady, a conviction that the picture is completely charming helps to obliterate any trace of charm which it might otherwise have possessed. Most tedious shot: Actress Shirley's simper.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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