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Word: stardom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshmen took their first step toward future stardom by winning the weekly rhumba contest at the Zero Hereford Club Wednesday night. Braving a large crowd of contestants, the two Yardlings. Robert W. Lerner and Winslow B. Ayer, and their escorts hit the groove in that old Cuban...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLINGS SHINE IN ZERO HEREFORD RHUMBA CONTEST | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard has been a two-goal team, and only the weakness of the Tech and Tufts forwards gave the booters their victories. Against the Engineers they did show flashes of excellent playing, however, and several individuals displayed marked Improvement and even approached stardom...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...insists she found the baby and that makes it all right. The ensuing complications, involving a department store, a jitterbug contest, and David Niven, all add up to delightful fare, even for the most heavily armor-plated movie-goer. David Niven has climbed another rung towards a well-deserved stardom. Miss Rogers does a fine job, even though the shadows of Fred Astaire and such triumphs as "Top Hat" and "The Castles" still lurk wistfully in the background. Director Kanin, newcomer on the movie lots, has given the whole picture a refreshing sense of everyday people in an everyday world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Veteran southpaw, Mee Jubitz heads a capable mound corps which includes Joe Wood, Bing Crosby, and Dick Ames. All of these boys are headed for stardom, and Freshman Ted Harrison is only biding his time until he can join them. Bill Poole and Tony Mott are the ranking catchers...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Yale, Princeton Appear Strong As EIL Loop Gets Under Way | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

...Informer" and specialist in fog effects, has made a rather exciting adventure story out of "Submarine Patrol," celluloid epic of the U-boat chasing "splinter fleet." If you can sink back into plush upholstery, forgetting the tremendous bellows of Hollywood publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

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