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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highest point in the high jinks was a Gone With the Wind costume ball night before the premiere, attended by 6,000 celebrants, movie stars and executives galore, Governors of five former Confederate States.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Belle of the ball was Vivien Leigh, who nearly everybody agreed looked right like Scarlett O'Hara. Darkly grinning Clark

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Gable's head was in a whirl. Hundreds of the prettiest little girls he had ever seen had surrounded him earlier. One looked at him a little too long, gasped: "Lord, I can't stand this any longer," fainted. An eleven-year-old girl, given a choice of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Next night through the false front of tall white columns erected to make Atlanta's Grand Theatre look like Tara (the O'Hara plantation in Gone With the Wind) streamed a privileged 2,031 who were going to see the picture whose title Hollywood had been abbreviating for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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