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Word: sid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woos and wins a lowly dancer whose fortune two shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack Whiting (America's Sweetheart). No impresarios were ever more feverishly active than droll, cow-eyed Jack Haley (Free For All), and hook-nosed Sid Silvers, who used to sit in an upper box and insult Phil Baker. Cropping out here & there in the proceedings is curvesome, loud-shouting Ethel Merman (Zimmerman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...some of Hollywood's foremost impersonators. From left to right they are: Director Erich von Stroheim, with his shako cocked over his nose; Producer Joe Schenck as a colonel of the cuirassiers; Douglas Fairbanks of the Hussards de la Garde; Grenadier Clive Brook; le Maréchal Sid Grauman; Adolphe Menjou as Marshal Ney; William Powell as an aide de camp. To the left lies Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand corner Charlie Chaplin, as a drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from Vivandi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hollywood to the Rescue | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Directly beneath Curé Chaplin's left boot Artist Ravenne has noted the fact that his masterpiece was begun Feb. 26, 1929, finished June 8. Impresario Sid Grauman values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hollywood to the Rescue | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Mentioned last week as the most likely candidate for new managing director of Roxy's was Sid Grauman, operator of Hollywood's famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roxy's on the Rocks | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

...concerts, the theatre, the Metropolitan which she now likens to a Ford establishment. The warm months she spends at Ridgefield, Conn., plays wholeheartedly the role of country gentlewoman. She motors, gardens, keeps a bird refuge, admires the neighbors' babies. Everyday at luncheon she entertains her father, Sidney ("Sid") Farrar, onetime professional baseballer and her neighbor. If the day is hot, re- gardless of other guests Father Farrar comes as he is most comfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country Gentlewoman | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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