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Word: ranchipur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rains Came (20th Century-Fox) suggests that, unless Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck abates his enthusiasm for bigger & better cinema catastrophes, the upshot may well have to be an autobiography culminating in the destruction by brimstone of the 20th Century-Fox studios. Life in the native Indian state of Ranchipur is going on placidly until the rains come. Then a San Francisco earthquake breaks the dam at the most inopportune moment, inundating Ranchipur in a flood more terrible, if less widespread, than that of The Green Pastures. A plague of Yellow Jack virulence breaks out, inducing the Ranchipur authorities to start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Ranchipur. mythical capital of a small Indian principality of the same name, a mixed congregation of people are waiting with tense impatience for the June rains to break the heat of a particularly torrid spring. There are the kindly old Maharajah and his sharp old spouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Storm Over India | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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