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Word: molls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...18th-Century cracks which strained the broadcasting code ("Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time to make her Fortune.") U. S. radio listeners found its gangster Captain Macheath, his moll Polly Peacham, and its other ballad-singing jailbirds as fetching as a trim ankle, its famed tunes as neat as a whistle. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beggar's Opera | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Other members of the cast are: "Moll," Miss Shirley Bernstein; "Mrs. Mister," Miss Lillian Wolfson; "Sister Mister", Miss Francis Morrison; "Sadie," Miss Sarah Kruskall; "Ella," Mrs. Lynn Gordon; "Gent" and "Junior Mister," Myron Simons '40; "Mr. Mister" and "Dick," William A. Whitcraft '39; "Cop," Rendigs Fols '39; "Reverend Salvation" and "Stevie," Kendall Smith 3G; "Editor Daily and Dauber," Rupert Pole '40; "Yasha," Arthur Szathmary 2G; "Prexy," Robert Rothschild '39; "Scoot," Jonas Muller '40; "Doctor Specialist," Alfred Eisner '39; "Druggist," John Wahlke '39; "Bugs," Robert Seidman '41 and "Gus Polack," Roger Henselman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union Thespians Will Give Timely Musical Drama | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

Although their desire to annoy the skinflint president of the St. Louis Midland Railroad is altruistic, Jesse and his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) rob his trains with ingratiating gusto. No mollycoddle, Jesse James excels modern cinema gangsters in horseback riding, marksmanship and chivalry. He treats his gun-moll (Nancy Kelly) with devotion, and is shot by a traitor while fondly regarding a hand-embroidered wall motto that says God Bless Our Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...make a clean sweep, he decides to sell his farm as well. But when he agrees to sell it to a Nazi Bund for a "recreation ground," not only his family protests, but his long-dead forebears - along with Harriet Beecher Stowe and fiction's famed Harlot Moll Flanders - rise from their graves to remonstrate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...across the stage. Ghosts do the work, all too picturesquely, that cries out for living men. At its worst, the play is mere drivel. When the final curtain comes down on the family drinking a toast, it seems like the conclusion of a homemade English boarding-school playlet. When Moll Flanders (Isobel Elsom) rustles archly across the stage in her duchessy silks, mouthing fancy, ye-old-tea-shoppe truisms, she brings to mind Penrod and his friends acting out Mrs. Lora Rewbush's egregious Arthurian "pageant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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