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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bloom will do exactly as Daddy tells him to," pouted Miss Bankhead a bit tactlessly. "Anyway, we actors shouldn't be punished for what Sol Bloom does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Theatre Lobby | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...newscameras, Miss Bankhead hugged Uncle John and cried: "Of course you'll vote to do something for the unemployed actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Theatre Lobby | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...John Villiers Farrow) was to have one of her own almost as soon as the film was finished. Cinemactress O'Sullivan undertook the role three and a half months before her child was expected, finished the job with only a month to spare. Cameraman Leonard Smith shot Miss O'Sullivan behind fern fronds, through leafy screens, at respectful distances, permitted his camera to drop no hint of her own infanticipation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...plot is woven about the slim thread of the Yokel Boy's success in Hollywood and his sweetheart's -- Miss January -- failure therein. Thin though it is, the story might easily support a shorter play with the aid of its already first-rate score, its lavish settings, and its nifty costumes. By this time it's probably a good show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 6/22/1939 | See Source »

...novelist has yet written a good book about it. Few serious novelists have even tried. A harder try than most is The Day of the Locust, by a 35-year-old Manhattan-born novelist who became a screen writer three years ago, after writing a talented satire called Miss Lonelyhearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Truly Monstrous | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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