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Word: sylvia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elaine Tanner and Sylvia Rice, both of the Class of 1950, will share editorial chores of the Annex Red Book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Names Committee Chiefs | 4/29/1948 | See Source »

Comedian Danny Kaye and Writer Wife Sylvia, who started trying a trial separation last fall, stopped trying and rejoined each other. (She had kept on writing his comedy routines through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...prettily dressed and decorated. Sylvia Sidney, as the target for tonight, and John Hodiak, as the maniac, play it as if they 1) wished they were elsewhere, but 2) felt that they owed some kind of minimum to their employers and their conscience as craftsmen. Supporting players are given to lines like "Yon storm'll be upon us main soon."*Others merely curtsy, mew incoherently or tug their forelocks. For what it is worth-a middling curdler-the whole thing was much better done in 1937 by Basil Rathbone and Ann Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Like Peanuts. In Manhattan, when Sylvia Davenport's groom disappeared, she hired a sleuth who presently found the missing groom around the corner, getting married again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Comedian Danny Kaye moved to a hotel, leaving behind wife Sylvia, who has spent most of his career writing his song lyrics and comedy routines. "A trial separation," the couple's business manager called it, "merely for a period of readjustment." Anyway, Comedian Kaye got a chic sendoff: smartchat Vogue appeared with an interpretive photograph of him, ringed with profound symbols (a piccolo, an umbrella, a plaster brain, a yoyo, a sand pail, a fiddle, a galosh, a pop bottle, a dead chicken, a milk bottle wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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