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Word: periwig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every Day's A Holiday Paramount made a determined effort to de-umph Mae West by vacuum-cleaning the script, disguising Mae in a fantastic black French periwig. But, like trying to purify the water by whitewashing the village pump, it did not work. To situations considerably less potential than the story of Adam & Eve, Actress West imparts a meaning all her own; despite all directorial and script-writing efforts to make her steer a straight course, she still writhes as she pleases. As sexless a game as selling a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge resembles, in the West vernacular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Singing Swan", while it suffers from a popular standpoint by its scholastic detail and consequent lengthiness. Is done in the soft, mellow style of "Jane Eyre" and was as the cause with a pleasant image of the "Picturesque Century of brocade and periwig, sedan chair, Chippendale furniture and early Wedgewood...

Author: By E. W. R, | Title: BOOKENDS | 5/26/1931 | See Source »

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