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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tower of London (Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone; TIME, Dec. 11).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The Great Victor Herbert is distinguished for providing Allan Jones the first film part worthy of his silken tenor. It also brings to the screen for the first time Mary Martin, glamorous Texas strip teaser, whose song, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, was the hit of the 1938 Broadway musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Four Wives (Warner Bros.) increases and multiplies the joys and sorrows of the four daughters (Rosemary, Priscilla, Lola Lane and Gale Page) of old Music Master Lemp (Claude Rains) in a typical U. S. townlet. This time maternal instinct defeats the considerable ingenuity with which, in Four Daughters, Director Michael...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The consequences of marriage are almost too much for everybody in the Lemp sisterhood. The clinical situation at a glance: Sister No. 1 expects a baby, visits her doctor to learn that she never can have one. Sister No. 2 deduces therefrom that she is in the same predicament, adopts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Because of young Benito Mussolini's fleshy romance, The Cardinal's Mistress, and young Adolf Hitler's well-meaning water colors, citizens of the world now have some reason for a nervous interest in the problems of frustrated writers and artists. Ranking with these dictators' grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Novelist | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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