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Word: screened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe will run off its own preliminary round, and the winner will then advance to the final round in Boston, datelined for October 22. The eventual winner will be offered a screen test and other inducements to a movie or modeling career...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Tries For Miss Red Feather | 10/5/1948 | See Source »

Next day, stoutly denying any intent of censorship, CBS officials mumbled about "technical difficulties." Gypsy's sudden departure from the screen was just "a very odd coincidence." Said Miss Lee: "It was nearly midnight. Surely the kiddies aren't watching at that hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Vanishing Stripteaser | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Died. Warren William (Krech), 53, stage & screen actor; of cancer of the bone marrow; in Los Angeles. An immediate success in the early talkies, he specialized at playing sophisticated villains and cultured detectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...parts in two unreleased films are also villainous. In her career of screen wickedness, she has already been strangled, shot, run over by a car and sentenced to prison (as a bad girl must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Knew Too Much." The coroner called Porter's death suicide, but next day Columnist Pearson hinted that it might have been murder. The circumstances, he said darkly, "are strange indeed, including the fact that Porter jumped-or was pushed-through a window screen. This is not an ordinary act of suicide." Pearson said Porter had told him that certain people had been trying to force him to return to Scotland (he was a British subject), because "apparently some people believed he knew too much." Porter had told some friends of attempts to blackmail him, and he was sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Disinherited | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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