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Word: sondra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper and lower classes, with neither of which does he succeed in identifying himself. Here is the boy (a light finds the face of Clyde on the dark stage). Here is one girl (a light finds Roberta). Here is another (out of the darkness springs the face of Sondra). Both are equally young, equally beautiful. But Sondra is rich, while Roberta is a poor factory girl. The story begins to unfold on the one articulated set 'at an accelerating pace. Now feeling as if he were in a nightmare, now as if he were in a lecture hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...early episodes in the career of the murderer, Clyde Griffiths. He is shown as a bellhop, a tramp, a dishwasher, then as a foreman in the collar factory of a rich uncle. He seduces a factory girl, Roberta Alden, and attempts to desert her when he is attracted by Sondra Finchley, richer and correspondingly more interesting. When Roberta Alden tells Clyde Griffiths that she is going to have a baby, he is provoked to kill her?by taking her on a picnic, tipping over their rowboat, swimming to shore while she drowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 17, 1931 | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Loew's State -- "Those Three French Girls". Namely, Fify d'Orsay, Nola d' Avril and Sondra Ravel being continental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

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