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Word: rios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexican Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio, almost lifesize, in color. ¶A "composograph" (frankly doctored picture) of Gypsy Rose Lee. strip teaser, in conversation with Mrs. Harrison Williams, "world's best-dressed woman." Sample imaginary dialog: Williams: "I never wear the same thing twice. And you?" Lee: "I never put off tomorrow what I can put off today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Look Out | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...important negative at Buenos Aires was the omission of the U. S. last week to join in otherwise unanimous approval by the Americas of linking up the principal American and other peace treaties (such as the Kellogg-Briand Pact) with the League of Nations. Chilean Delegate Felix Nieto Del Rio put Messrs. Hull & Welles on a spot by declaring the U. S. had "abstained." They got off by insisting the U. S. had "withheld." In any case the U. S. is not having any League of Nations in its Good Neighborhood this week, and Geneva can smoke that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Good Neighborhood | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...musicomedy, ends in the formula of a courtroom melodrama. The transition occurs when someone murders the leading lady (Florence Desmond) of a Paris revue, just after her advances to the show's male dancer (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) have aroused the indignation of his knife-throwing wife (Dolores Del Rio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...members of the vast theatre population which is one of London's chief attractions as a cinema capital, it suffers from a torpor so pronounced that U. S. audiences are likely to suspect that the murdered leading lady is not really dead but dozing. Good shot: Dolores Del Rio-whose next U. S. picture will be Devil's Playground-in a jealous rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...final gesture was also Harry Sinclair's. When Judge James last week found it beyond his lawful power to grant Richfield's reorganization committee more than $160,000 of its $381,000 five-year expense account, Attorney Hurley rose again, announced that Rio Grande Oil would gladly put up the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Richfield & Sinclair | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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