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Word: pinna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mainstay of Princeton Triangle shows 13 years back, sings with as much grace and gusto as pretty Kitty Carlisle. Hampered in Hollywood by being only half-photogenic (one profile is much handsomer than the other), in Three Waltzes Singer Bartlett shows his full face. Costumes, by Connie De Pinna, are good all around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Musicals in Manhattan: Jan. 3, 1938 | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...took up Meccano and manufacturing fireworks, his daughter (Josephine Hull) turned to painting, then to playwriting when someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake. Grandpa's free-&-easy home was also opened to a pair of happy-go-lucky colored folk, the iceman-a Mr. De Pinna-and the milkman, who had no name of his own so Grandpa buried him under his when he died. Grandpa was never bothered with mail after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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