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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Febrile, fantastic Jean Cocteau, France's No. i playboy of the intellect, left the Paris Ritz to live on a houseboat and do war work. His war work, said he, would be writing a play about love, explained: "Love and War are the only two eternal themes. But when...

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

From Lisbon, Portugal, World's Fairer Grover Whalen embarked for the U. S. after a three-month European tour to shore up his next year's show with foreign expositionists. Said Salesman Whalen: "My visit was satisfactory. I believe I can say all countries I visited will reopen...

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

Wrinkled, doggy, 74-year-old Townsend Scudder, retired New York State Supreme Court Justice, won a Connecticut State Supreme Court injunction allowing him to maintain 27 cocker spaniels on his Round Hill, Greenwich, Conn, estate. Thus ended a litigious two years in which neighbors, annoyed by barking, had sought to...

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

Finnish Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius refused offers of haven all over Europe, said he would sit tight at his Ainola estate near Helsinki. Finnish Runner Paavo Nurmi taped the windows of his Helsinki sporting goods shop, went ofi to enlist as a chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his...

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

At opening of The Taming of the Shrew in Los Angeles, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne gave swishy latecomers the works. As each laggard strolled or strutted down the aisle, Lunt & Fontanne stopped dead in their lines, she to bow graciously, he to cry "Welcome!" Once he said: "For the...

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

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