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Word: macduff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copley, Macbeth was roaring his last speech to Macduff. His bosom heaved, and his voice thundered out over the audience, rolling majestically up even to the furthermost balcony. His bushy red eyebrows beetled noticeably. Everything had gone against him. His wife had died pitiably. Ten thousand English soldiers had brought Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane. And he was fighting a man not born of a woman. But, despite the witches' warning which must have been ringing in his ears, Macbeth bellowed his own obituary: "Lay on, Macduff; and damn'd be him that first cries Hold, enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Macduff laid on; swords clashed; and Macbeth got his in the second round. He died beautifully at the edge of the stage, heaving his final gasp practically in Vag's face. A moment later, Vag and the school kids all tried to get out of the same exit at the same time. The youngsters and their brazen school girl dates--those feline hellions with their startling curves, who had hissed vengefully at the dagger scene and necked vigorously throughout the banquet scene--now had little regard for a rheumatic oldster like Vag. Push as he might, he got nowhere until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...believe she's a junior at Wellesley this time." Macbeth, now looking very 20th century, grinned as he buttoned up his reversible. Then he opened the door and faced the Arlington Amazons as bravely as he had met Macduff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

When Senator Guffey had heard Senator Burke call his radio speech "cheap stuff, tawdry stuff;" when West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt had called him the ally of "bosses and corruptionists" and when Senator Wheeler, shaking a long lean finger at his enemy, had croaked: "Lay on Macduff and damned be he that first cries Hold, Enough," the Senate had seen a very bitter scene of personal animosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last Words | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...border, when the widowed Mrs. William (June Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get him back. Priscilla liked it in the station, where Sergeant MacDuff (Victor McLaglen) made her a wooden gun, taught her the manual of arms. She also learned not to go out in the sun without a hat, not to refer to the Colonel, her grandfather (C. Aubrey Smith), by his regimental nickname: Old Boots. One evening the Afghans attacked the arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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