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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their love," says a friend, "is the most beautiful thing I have ever known." Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier spend most of their time together, are seldom seen at Hollywood night clubs, both like reading (she prefers biographies, thought David Cecil': The Young Melbourne "wonderfully good"). Olivier sings a few songs that Vivien Leigh knows how to pick out c i the piano. In their repertory: The Melody in F, Banjo on My Knee, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Fleming and Selznick worked with cutters, taking out, putting in, putting in, taking out, until they had a picture that ran just under four hours. They took this to Riverside, in the orange country, surprised fans there with a sneak preview. With them was Jock Whitney, who had not seen the film before. When the picture ended, tears were streaming down his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...date the U. S. public has seen a good many pictures of war-order planes lined up on fields, and shrouded bomber fuselages being loaded on freighters or falling into harbor mud. But aside from aircraft it has seen little concrete evidence of war orders. Last week (see cut) 478 Studebaker trucks on a Staten Island dock in New York Harbor readied for shipment to the Allied Armies, provided the first good view of nonplane war orders in the flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: War Orders | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...greater miracles [than the use of handkerchiefs] have occurred. A wonderful improvement has taken place ... regarding the practice of spitting on floors and sidewalks and in vehicles. Only those who have seen this improvement could believe it possible to influence the public in personal behaviour in so short a time. Transferring a cold to another person is the worst of bad manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Wonderful Improvement | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Network programs going over 175 stations were cut off; programs on the NBC international short-wave stations (WNBI and WRCA) were silenced. Then Jimmy's voice, without a splutter or a wasted word, told the world: "We have just seen the Graf Spee explode five miles off the coast: the ship has been scuttled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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