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Word: mc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music just about balance. They are both top-notch, though you may find a trifle too much talk in the second act. The times are in the traditional Rodgers and Hart pattern, but not so repetitions as they have been in the past. "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Mc" is a fine and mellow torch number; "The Gateway of the Temple of Minerva" is a hot boogic woogie special. And "Careless Rhapsody" is another song you'll be whistling soon...

Author: By J. B Mcm., | Title: PLAYGOER | 5/13/1942 | See Source »

...this sad scene appeared John R. ("Jock") McLean, 26-year-old son of Washington's wealthy Evalyn Walsh Mc Lean, owner of the Hope Diamond. Softball-playing Jock McLean is also brother-in-law of North Carolina's Bob Reynolds-the 57-year-old "Fighting Bob" who married Jock's 20-year old sister Evalyn last October. Reynolds is chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, before which come all Army appropriations bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: War Baby | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Except that he told them OPA would not tolerate deliberate price gouging, Mc-Cormick's advice was just what their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Ceiling for Autos | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Because a lot of other people, including Marshall Field III, want in a different sense to work on the Tribune, a rival Chicago paper is about to be launched. But when Marshall Field begins working on the Tribune, the Tribune's towering Colonel Robert Rutherford Mc-Cormick will begin working on the Field paper. That will be the zero hour for a clash between two great Chicago fortunes, one originally made in Chicago's dominant department store and the other made in Chicago's dominant newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle of Newspapers | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Spring" Again (by Isabel Leighton & Bertram Bloch; produced by Guthrie Mc-Clintic) becomes a funny comedy about an hour and a half after the curtain rises. Until then it pants and puffs, nervously broad-jumping from joke to joke and depending for interest on the deft performance of Comedienne Grace George (The Circle, Kind Lady). When, at the end of Act II, it suddenly bolts forward like a race horse that has been given the whip, it's a little too late for it to be in the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old & New Plays in Manhattan | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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