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Word: telling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prosecution has said from the beginning," declared a Denhardt lawyer, "that General Denhardt shot Mrs. Taylor when she told him she could not go through with their marriage as planned. The truth of the matter is that Mrs. Taylor was begging the General to marry her. He will tell the truth about this when the day of his trial comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: General & Widow (Cont'd) | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Distressed" Areas, wanted to spend so much money on them that his resignation was accepted by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. The fact that His Majesty went to South Wales straight from consulting Scotsman Stewart caused the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Neville Chamberlain, to arise in some perturbation and tell an audience at Leeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Errand of Mercy | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...bathtub scene. While it was being made one day (in England), she slipped, sprawled, spread-eagled naked before the camera crew. Everyone was flustered except Dietrich. She laughed, picked herself up, popped back in the tub (see cut). During the production of The Garden of Allah she could tell whether the take would be good or bad by the intensity of the light on her face. She tested personally her dress materials and makeup under lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Garden of Allah | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...risen steadily. She got $200,000 for Allah. Figured on a picture rather than a weekly basis, she is Hollywood's highest-paid woman, the highest-salaried woman in the world. There is no doubt of her being a loving mother. Old friends tell how anxiously, when Maria was abroad, Dietrich waited for a letter containing the child's first tooth. When at last the denticle arrived Dietrich put it in her mouth and carried it there for several days. Despite the scintillating quality of her male escorts, the world's No. 1 glamour girl is definitely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Garden of Allah | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Lobotomy. Dr. Freeman, a poetaster in his spare time, was nervous when he rose to tell a fascinated audience how he and Dr. Watts ameliorated chronic anxiety, insomnia and nervous tension in six patients during the past two months. In addition the patients were relieved of various "disorientations, confusions, phobias, hallucinations and delusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Southern Doctors | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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