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Word: schemestress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...favorite blackface pair. For their April 3 broadcast, the day they moved over to CBS after eleven years with NBC, Amos 'n' Andy cooked up a superspecial episode. Andy, long a wary bachelor, let himself and an $800 bankroll be lured to a Harlem altar by a schemestress named Puddin' Face. But just as the preacher said the words "I now pronounce you . . ." two shots broke up the wedding. Next few episodes found Puddin' Face merrily charging gewgaws against Andy's $800, and loyal Amos plaintively wondering whether Puddin' Face really, truly and legally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opinions | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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