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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room?" growled Corrigan like all three bears. American Airlines Pressagent Carl Anderson, whose employers squired Corrigan's tour, told him. "Well, get her out," said Corrigan. Pressagent Anderson tried to explain. "Listen here, you," barked Corrigan, "when I tell you to do something, you jump." Anderson fetched Miss Underwood away from Corrigan's phone, but Governor Merriam, who comes up for reelection this fall, came to the rescue. "Little lady," said he, "you may use my phone any time you wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Adventure's End | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...abdomen, they slowly pull themselves by the claws on their forefeet up the incline into the soft, warm, apron-pocket pouch. The mother sits quietly on her haunches, takes no part in the affair. It is likely that many of the young, with little but instinct to guide them, miss the mother's pouch entirely. The number found there is al most always less than the number of embryos in the uterus shortly before birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Half-Baked Babies | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...this to the best advantage. Too Hot to Handle exhibits its hero (Clark Gable) in the act of shooting a film of Alma Harding (Myrna Loy) as she arrives in China with a plane full of cholera serum. His reel is sensational because, in making it, Mr. Gable forces Miss Loy to wreck her plane. (In one of the takes for this scene, Miss Loy was trapped in the burning plane's cabin, had to be rescued in earnest by Mr. Gable.) Apologetic but not penitent, Gable pretends to destroy the film. It remains to plague him through frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...picture for double features because of its length (106 min.), it should persuade even cinemaddicts who are sour on newsreels that they would do well to give Graham McNamee one more chance. Good shot: picture within a picture, when Miss Loy sees the newsreel Clark Gable has pretended to destroy, at a Manhattan preview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...routine ro mance between a homespun football coach (George Murphy) and the Governor's amiable secretary (Marjorie Weaver). Typical shot: Gabby Harrigan, having agreed to let the outcome of his Senatorial race depend on the big game gloomily watching State's fabulously effective girl dropkicker (Joan Davis) miss a crucial field goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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