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Word: ladyes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vaulting from the platform of a private railroad car, a stouter but no less jaunty Douglas Fairbanks returned to Hollywood for the first time since the news of divorce proceedings put his name back into the headlines. But to inquisitive newshawks he would say nothing about the suit filed against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Pierce-Arrow. One of those rarities, a corporate grass widow, Pierce-Arrow was purchased by Studebaker in 1928, but after the Studebaker receivership last year, Pierce-Arrow was sent back to her old Buffalo friends. Last week Pierce-Arrow was in court again, this time petitioning for permission to reorganize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moon on the Motors | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Oldest department store in New York is Hearn's, founded in 1827 by an immigrant descendant of an English divine. In the 1870's many a rich old lady in coach and four clattered over the cobblestones of 14th Street to alight at Hearn's for a camel's hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Profitless Hearn | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

No. 1 director for 1934 is Columbia's Frank Capra (Lady for a Day, It Happened One Night). A chunky Italian with short fingers and round, glossy eyes, he has a fine sense of human comedy, an aptitude for "gags" that dates back to the days when he was "gagman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: DeMille's 60th | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke (White Shadows in the South Seas, Trader Horn, Eskimo) dislikes being pigeonholed as a "location-director." Yet such he was until he made The Prizefighter and the Lady last autumn. Since then he has made Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: DeMille's 60th | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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