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Word: skin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weakened by its off-key conclusion, Success at Any Price is not improved by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s skin-deep performance. Colleen Moore appears for the first time since she started a comeback in The Power and the Glory (TIME, Aug. 28). Mousy, pallid, indecisive, she is no longer the pert, starry-eyed actress of 'flapper" roles in silent picture days, when exhibitors voted her the industry's No. 1 box office attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...make the ice fly in front of their rivals in the race to the main herd, and sometimes a bullet goes astray. A swiler must be light on his feet, for a seal can lollop over the ice as fast as a man can run. A good swiler can skin a seal in 40 to 60 seconds, and may take as many as 120 sculps per day. He may drag his sculps back to the ship at the day's end, or may pile them on an ice pan to be picked up later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWFOUNDLAND: Sculps & Swilers | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

University--"Moulin Rouge". Constance Bennett seducing her own husband is neither very attractive nor very amusing. "Massacre." And another red-skin bit the dust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 3/21/1934 | See Source »

...subjects for the work include the investigation of skin color of chimpanzees, the thought of William James as revealed by unpublished correspondence, and research on choral music, personality and the modern department store...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark, Milton Awards Made For Harvard Research Men | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...Blest. Act I ends with movies showing a diving submarine and in Act II Helen uses an elevator to complete her descent to the netherworld. There the warrior-ghosts have taken on ectoplasmic shapes. Against their warning Achilles emerges, in white knee skirts, white mittens and a skin-tight sweater with a letter A on his chest. With Helen he shoots up out of Hades on the elevator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: More Helen | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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