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Word: paramount (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pertinent to Mrs. Selwyn's situation was the British Government's Kenya White Paper of 1923 which Kenya whites hate and which would have astounded Empire Builder Rhodes. It laid down the rule: "The interests of the African natives must be paramount, and that if, and when, those interests, and the interests of the immigrant races should conflict, the former should prevail. . . . The principle of trusteeship for the natives ... is unassailable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Kenya Colony | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...Says Paramount's pressagent: "Miss DeMille was not padded. She's a big buxom girl and needs to be laced in rather than padded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: General in Control | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...Paramount and Fenway: "Bellc of the Nineties"--Mae West gets her second showing in Boston when she appears at the Paramount and Fenway in this rather boisterously amusing tale of the ever so gay nineties. Also "Big Hearted Herbert", telling the story of a boorish, self-made man and his conversion by members of his family to the amenities of life, is included on the bill. Guy Kibbee has the leading role in this picture, which is taken from the play of the same name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...Paramount, and Fenway: "Now and Forever"--Shirley Temple in a fairly entertaining story which attempts to prove that nothing is better able than a child to cement the bonds of true live. "The Case of the Howling Dog"--a very complicated mystery which is about mediocre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

...Paramount and Fenway: "Now and Forever"--Shirley Temple in a fairly entertaining story which attempts to prove that nothing is better able than a child to cement the bonds of true love. "The Case of the Howling Dog"--a very complicated mystery which is about mediocre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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