Word: testes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned this trick from the Eskimos, who have long indulged in hole-boring tactics in fishing. They do it through ice. The way we did it, through our boat, made it much more of a sporting proposition. I heartily recommend whifflepoof fishing to Mr. Miller if he wants to test his skill sometime when banana fish are out of season...
...plays Scarlett O'Hara, picture-pretty, British-born Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (real name: Vivien Mary Hartley Holman) gave newsmen a sample of her synthetic Southern drawl: "Just think, honey, in only a week of studyin' Ah learned to speak this-a-way. They gave me a test and honest-to-God if Ah didn't pass just like that. Wasn't it lovely...
...Entry No. 436. He agrees that she has no chance for the part but talks her into flying to Hollywood for the trip, with her Aunt Phoebe (Edna May Oliver). After a twirl on the ice with her pupils, Trudi consents. Although Trudi does no skating in her screen test, she makes the grade. Jimmy believes that, as the new star, she can be used to bolster the publicity value of Roger Maxwell (Rudy Vallée), a crooner on the studio pay roll whose self-esteem is more impressive than his newsworthiness. Touched by Roger's mash notes...
...Tyrone Power, was just that. Her less publicized friendship for Jeff Dickson* ended when she left Europe for the U. S. in 1936. She gave him back his jewelry. Her parents regarded with approval middle-aged Clifford Jeapes (pronounced Geeps), British cinemagnate who gave Sonja her first (unsuccessful) screen test. Romantic friends incline to the belief that the only man Sonja Henie has ever really been interested in was Jack Dunn, the handsome 19-year-old Cambridge undergraduate aviator who was her fellow-skater and constant companion on her 1936 tour, had a movie contract in his pocket when...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Hearst-like London Sunday Express demanded that hopelessly unfit oldsters should be retired at once in favor of nimbler men, who, as directors of industry, would then be exempt from the draft. Suggesting that shareholders look over their boards of directors, the Express advised a test: "Ask the chairman if he can ride a bicycle. If he can't, then get a new chairman...