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Word: montee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in College Humor's November issue Colyumist Brush poured her first cocktail. It contained a description of Mrs. Ely Culbertson's eyebrows-"so thin they give her face a kind of naked-and- unashamed look'': of Queen Mary at Wimbledon-"Her hats exactly suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brush Cocktail | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

¶Near Los Angeles Mrs. Edna Porter Killian, 35, clubwoman, murdered her rancher husband Howard, killed herself because she was worried over finances. The Killians, both graduates of the University of California, were prominent among the landed gentry around El Monte.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Destitution | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

In 1906 he went to Europe, won a million dollars at Monte Carlo and saw the Folies Bergere. The first Ziegfeld Follies appeared in 1907-08. Critic Percy Hammond called it "a loud & leering orgy of indelicacy & suggestiveness." Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Glorifier's End | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Monte Carlo Madness (UFA). Bombarded by Hollywood cinemas with for- eign dialog, European producers have tried to retaliate by making pictures in English. Trying it herein, UFA wisely chose a comedy of the type which German Director Ernst Lubitsch has made popular in the U. S., with Sari Maritza, an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 13, 1932 | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

The most interesting volume on show is DeQuincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", with lithographs by Zenya Gray which catch the atmosphere of the book extremely well. Other volumes represented are Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", grotesquely illustrated by Alexander King; "The Travels of Baron Munchausen", combined with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 6/3/1932 | See Source »

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