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Word: reel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a Connecticut woman packed up a rod & reel and repaired to a three-mile stretch of Branford River near New Haven, when the State trout season opened one day last week. Few of them minded much when they tangled their lines in trees and bushes, whipped their hooks into each others' clothes, got their wading boots waterlogged. They were happy because at last they had a chance to learn how to fish with no impatient male anglers standing by to criticize, complain, show off. Any husbands or fathers who went along had to sit meekly inactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies with Rods | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...warden of their own sex. She is Edith A. Stoeher, 27, a husky, genial sportswoman who breeds English setters on her farm near South Wethersfield, likes to hunt, fish, trapshoot. Last fortnight, in a field test with four other applicants for the job, she proved her skill with rod & reel, her knowledge of flies, knots, trout. Publisher Beck expects her to turn out many a woman angler able to whip Connecticut's 32 State-leased trout streams with the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies with Rods | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

Back in Manhattan from Hollywood where he had supervised six two-reel contract bridge films for RKO Radio Pictures. Inc. Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson alibied his cancellation of a bridge match with the four Marx Brothers who play a fair game. Having agreed to a quiet game, he found they had hired a hall and invited 300 cinema stars to watch the "world's championship." Zeppo and Chico were to play, Harpo to advise, Groucho to perch on a tower behind Culbertson wigwagging signals. Best bridging Marx is Zeppo, best gambler Chico. All play a good bargaining game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1933 | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...type of acting for which a close-up view of her smiling profile is not an adequate substitute, but her failure has never embarrassed her. In Secrets she exhibits the same curious knowledge of how to keep the sympathy of an audience which made her a star in two-reel pictures before audiences knew her name. Good shot: Mary, her hair disarrayed by the wind, snuggling up to John for a kiss, in the front seat of a prairie schooner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Records and pictures of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, when he was an undergraduate, were photographed yesterday afternoon at the CRIMSON for a moving picture of his life which the Universal News Reel Service of the "Chicago Daily Tribune" is preparing to issue in two months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURES OF ROOSEVELT AS STUDENT TAKEN FOR MOVIE | 3/24/1933 | See Source »

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