Word: minded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Grinning, pumpkin-plump Clara, 46, is not the cinema ideal of a hula queen. One night at the Royal Hawaiian, to the distress of the management, she sang and danced a brazen number called When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop. Composer Don McDiarmid was aghast ("I had in mind a slender, beautiful Hawaiian maiden-and look at you"). But the cash customers wanted more. The song became her trademark, and Hilo Hattie soon became Clara's professional name...
...Double Life. Ronald Colman has a histrionic field day as an actor who loses himself-and his mind-in his part (TIME...
...written an Essay on Despotism; now, living in Amsterdam, he wrote, translated, and, as a member of the Freemasons, planned to make them an instrument of world reform. Arrested again, imprisoned in the gloomy fortress at Vincennes, he was, at 28, ruined, his health destroyed, his mind preserved only by the works he wrote (14 or 15 hours a day) so as to keep from brooding on his plight...
Case History. In Pittsburgh, Dr. Frederic T. Mavis swallowed an oyster, changed his mind, tried to go into reverse, dislocated a vertebra and paralyzed his right...
...Quisenbery assures me that this is not what the AVC had in mind, but in order to avoid any possible confusion in the minds if your readers I feel I ought to make the procedure absolutely clear...