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Word: sheridan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Duty. The job of the R. A. F. in France was directed by Air Marshal-Arthur Sheridan Barratt, and his two Vice Marshals, Charles Hubert Blount (pronounced Blunt) and Patrick Henry Lyon Playfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: R. A. F. Against Odds | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Brien is plagued by all the annoyances incidental to the culture and timely transport of bananas. He also wrestles grimly with the problems of keeping his tougher assistant (James Cagney) down on the fruit farm, and the disturbing presence in the tropics of Oomph Girl Ann Sheridan (singer and cardsharp). Utilizing Mr. Cagney's irresistible attraction for women, Overseer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

This takes some time and Helen Vinson, whose oomph is less curvilinear and more serpentine than Ann Sheridan's, nearly spoils the happy synthesis. She also is so irresistibly attracted to Cinemactor Cagney that when her overseer husband (Jerome Cowan) remarks that Cagney looks half dead after being shot up in the jungle, Miss Vinson snaps unkindly: "That still leaves him 50% up on you." But Miss Vinson is too much the intellectual type. Ann Sheridan soon demonstrates that the way to Mr. Cagney's heart is to heave a plate of sandwiches at him so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Torrid Zone abounds in such robust action, in rowdy wisecracks by the men, catty wisecracks by the girls, skirmishes with a broad-minded bandit (George Tobias), falsetto funny business by Andy Devine, much sweltering and sweating by Messrs. Cagney and O'Brien. Oomph Girl Sheridan is never affected by the heat. She hops on & off moving banana trains, gets thrown in & out of jail, never even needs to change her one immaculate dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...tragedy was narrowly averted in Kirkland House last night as two Sophomores attempted to emulate Ann Sheridan's life mask with a home-made concoction of plaster-of-paris...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIRKLAND HOUSE SOPHOMORE TRAPPED IN HOT LIFE-MASK | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

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