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Word: trapdoor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...water, at least convinces that they are undressed. There are also two funnymen- melancholy little Jimmie Savo and handsome Jack Benny- and one extremely funny man, Herb Williams. Mr. Williams culminates his evening's work when, while playing the piano, he pauses to remove a sandwich from a trapdoor in the piano stool, and to draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot under the keyboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Show in Manhattan | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...England," is engaged in tracking down an elderly emerald thief who lives in a tower equipped with bloodhounds, secret passages, a beautiful girl, and a masked hunchback with a penchant for strangling people with his bare hands. Typical shot: the criminal-in-chief dropping a rebellious henchman through a trapdoor into quicksand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 26, 1930 | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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