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Word: though (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a short circular skirt and woolen shirt, her strokes as powerful as ever and her reflexes as quick, Oldster Sears amazed the galleries with her extraordinary stamina and agile court coverage, amused them with her rambunctious mannerisms and screaming but good-natured queries to the referee-as though he were way down in the cellar tending the furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...cinema manager who claims to be the author of the dirty war ditty Mademoiselle from Armentieres (pronounced-for the purposes of the song-"armentaire"), told a newsreporter at his home in Sutton, Surrey, England: "I am trying to do a piece for the lads in this war. You know, though, they say it's only once in a lifetime that you do a masterpiece. But that wasn't a masterpiece, of course. The fact is, it was the utterest tripe, old boy, the utterest tripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Racked though they were with Scarlett fever, the U. S. cinemillions on one point were constant-the people's choice to play Rhett Butler was Clark Gable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Though professional Anglophobes squawked at the choice of an English girl to play Scarlett O'Hara and a chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Ocala, Fla. protested, most Southerners were relieved. Their real fear was that a damyankee girl might be given the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Though Clark Gable taught Vivien Leigh to play backgammon, and never won a game from her, they were not the best of friends. Director Fleming and Cinemactress Leigh differed over the interpretation of Scarlett, to which Fleming wanted to restore the "guts" he thought George Cukor had taken out of it. Vivien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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