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...introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld Star Fannie Brice, when her second husband, Nicky Arnstein, was a fugitive on a swindling charge. After seeing Rose of Washington Square, Fannie Brice saw her lawyer. Last week from the owner of a sorer toe came a loud squeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nicky's Nick | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...reporter, worked five years for United Press as a feature writer, landed on the Telegram three years ago. He once began an interview with Cinemactress Simone Simon thus: "Your reporter walked straight up to her, without so much as a hello, and tickled her vigorously." When she failed to squeal Reporter Smith quoted a Hollywood report that she was ticklish. Replied Actress Simon: "It depends on who the tickling does." Five years ago, when President Roosevelt reviewed the fleet in New York Harbor, he hired a kayak, reviewed Roosevelt and the fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weather Gagman | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, the U. S., they are many a tot's first taste of theatre, many an oldster's last object of devotion. They draw dramaphobes out of retirement, lure suburbanites to the city. They foster cultists as rabid as Wagnerians-cultists who, unlike Wagnerians, squeal, snort, gurgle, hum and nudge their neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: G&S | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Pronounced mee-now and so named by Owner Hal Price Headley after his little daughter, whose impatience at his kissing his wife first on entering the house caused her to habitually stamp and squeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Double Disappointment | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Said Amos to Andy: "Dis lady was tellin' me dat de lady what writ Gone Wid de Win is gointa write a squeal, twice as big and twice as long." Delighted Atlantans rushed to telephone Author Margaret Mitchell Marsh, talked instead to Husband John R. Marsh. Said he: "You can tell Amos and Andy she isn't working on a 'squeal' or a 'sequel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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