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Word: noel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With a great show of hustle-bustle Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet received Polish Ambassador Julius Lukasiewicz and French Ambassador to Warsaw Leon Noel. Later he summoned German Ambassador Count Johannes von Welczeck to the Quai d'Orsay, and word was subsequently passed out to the press that M. Bonnet had told Count von Welczeck that France was fully backing her Eastern European ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: French Dirge | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...real life the young Tarzan (called Boy in the film) is five-year-old John Sheffield, son of English Actor Reginald Sheffield, who once had Noel Coward for an understudy. Starting out as a 4-lb. incubator baby, little Tarzan has been undergoing special, muscle-building courses of sprouts since he was two, learning to chin himself, perform athletic improbabilities and ignore fear...

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

Died. Ira Noel Mattison, 46, Glastenbury, Vermont's* last male inhabitant (total voters: three Mattisons), who held 14 offices, ranging from State Representative to Fire Warden, until the Legislature abolished the town government; in Glastenbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...with grease and enacted the part of the prosecuting attorney who sends Frankie to the chair. Such versatility caused Director Howard's friends at Manhattan's Stork Club, whose major-domo Jack Entratter got a policeman's part in the picture, to refer to him as "Noel Howard." Back Door to Heaven being what it is, this crack was no compliment to England's Noel Coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...than the others. The hero's though-stream is tainted with literature, and his phrases sometimes suggest the love-pulps. "You could neck her and yammer love between her teeth and all the time her mind would be skating on that little pool." The heroine talks in the early Noel Coward-Philip Barry manner that used to be known as brittle. The fourth in this group, "Hike in the Spring," by Mr. Clurman, winner last year of the national contest, is well conceived, but not quite successful in making the references to the step-mother give intensity to the accident...

Author: By Robert B. Davis and Instructor IN English, S | Title: On the Shelf | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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