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Word: nabob (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleanor is on safari in the jungle country with her father (George Barbier), her mother (Hedda Hopper) and her fiance (George Meeker). A swarthy turbaned nabob named Ben Alleu Bey (C. Henry Gordon), who keeps 100 wives in,a jungle palace, marks her for 101. But he reckons without Glenn Morris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...chosen to illustrate the idea were very ineptly selected, indeed. For it appears, on anything resembling a close examination, that what Dr. Wilson was really trying to say is that teachers should attempt, on every possible occasion, to circumvent the propagandizing influence of that most thoroughly Democratized of all nabob institutions, the American School Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LET'S HAVE THE FACTS | 11/10/1934 | See Source »

Down to Earth (Fox) is a typical Will Rogers comedy. The chief charm of his pictures lies in the easy, colloquial garglings of Funnyman Rogers. Rogers is Pike Peters, an Oklahoma oil nabob who tugs darkly at his sloppy felt hat while he contemplates his wife (Irene Rich), who loves giving lavish parties, and his son (Matty Kemp), who buys a $17,000 Rolls-Royce second hand for $9,000 and tells his father that he has made $8,000 profit. Rogers: "Say, son, that's fine. You'll be a millionaire if you can keep on doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 12, 1932 | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

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