Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reunion (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the second instalment of the fictionized "Biography of the Dionne Quintuplets." In the first chapter, The Country Doctor (TIME, March 16), the famed Five were the most important characters in the story...
Lloyd's of London (Twentieth Century-Fox). In The House of Rothschild (1934), Producer Darryl Zanuck imparted to a waiting world the news that the Battle of Waterloo was won by George Arliss and a flock of pigeons. In this picture, the same Wahoo, Neb. authority on the Napoleonic Wars reveals the inside story of Trafalgar. England's victory in this case, it appears, sprang from a childish pact between Admiral Horatio Nelson and Jonathan Blake, the moving spirit of Lloyd's, London's famed insurance company...
There is a saying that a new word added to one's vocabulary is worth $10, so I avidly reached for my Webster's Twentieth Century Unabridged when my eyes lit upon "logorrheic'' on p. 8 of your Nov. 2 issue. I felt cheated when I found nothing between logometric and Logos. Rather than lose $10 worth of culture I am risking 3? to ask you to elucidate...
...Look Now (by John Crump; Gustav Blum, producer). Author Crump's last effort produced on Broadway was a play called Hipper's Holiday, which lasted four performances. Having doubtless observed that Once in a Lifetime, Twentieth Century, Personal Appearance and Boy Meets Girl, which dealt laughably with the foibles of Hollywood, were well received, Mr. Crump has written a play about a heavily-accented cinemagnate who gets into great and voluble trouble because his blonde star skips out in the middle of a picture, leaving him with a "nut" (overhead...
...fare from New York to Chicago was $47.95, or $40.76 in scrip.* New fare is $39.95, or $33.96 in scrip. Standard train plus Pullman fare from New York to Chicago is $33.25. On the Twentieth Century Limited it is $42.45. The Century takes 16½ hours; TWA, 4¼hours...