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Word: moor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with Manhattan's Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, second in command in the U. S. Buchmanite movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gospel Cartoonist | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...failing so, yet that I put the Moor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

...remembered that the world's greatest dramatist had had something to say on the subject. Something world famous, in fact; something probably never equalled in the realm of dramatic expression. Vag decided to hear Professor Theodore J. Spencer at 11 o'clock today in Harvard 5, on "Othello, Moor of Venice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

...Their Majesties' friend and Great Britain's U. S. banker, John P. Morgan, called off the grouse shooting at his Scottish moor, offered his Gannochy Lodge to the nation for a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Is Very Near | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Before making the picture, Producer Goldwyn, a stickler for detail, landscaped 540 California acres into a Yorkshire moor. He imported eight British actors, a dialect expert to see that their accents matched, 1,000 panes of hand-blown glass for interior shots and 1,000 heather plants for outdoors. He did not attempt to send for Emily Bronte. In spite of this oversight, there is not much she could have done to improve this screen translation of her masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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