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Word: treetop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mine's fuse, jarred by the impact, was at work. Four and a half minutes after the Nazi airmen died, it set off its charge. Next instant there was a crater where the wrecked Heinkel had been. Surrounding houses were smashed flat. A baby carriage hung from a treetop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Comes Home | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...press-agent job was handling Broncho Billy Anderson, the cinema cowboy most in favor before the days of Tom Mix. Since then, Maney has press-agented some 90 shows for virtually every big producer on Broadway and for such oddities as a colored gentleman "a year removed from a treetop in the Congo." He has publicized such hits as The Front Page, Coquette, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Sailor Beware!, The Children's Hour. Says he from experience: "I have yet to find an actor, producer or stagehand who did not like to see his name in print." Among producers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Portrait of a Press Agent | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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