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...Grady (20th Century-Fox) sumptuously swaggers into Manhattan's Technicolored past (circa 1880) in which Miss Grable plays a music-hall queen from London named Madeleine Marlowe. Madeleine's betrothal to a Duke (Reginald Gardner) is mucked up by cover articles in the Police Gazette which unmask her as the onetime toast of Brooklyn Burlesque, Rosie O'Grady. Rosie wreaks vengeance upon Police Gazette Journalist Sam McGee (Robert Young) by telling the rest of the press that he has wooed her for her fortune. She gets him fired. Journalist McGee gallantly retaliates by popularizing the Sweet Rosie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Professor Van Steer delivering the Ingersoll Lecture, said, "there come moments by day and hours by night when each man must unmask and think of his own death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW CHAPEL DEDICATED AT ANDOVER HALL | 4/15/1942 | See Source »

...without eating. When Father Chisholm happened in unexpectedly late one night, found the young woman "stuffing herself" on roast chicken, her mother cried rather sensibly: "I've got to keep her strength up somehow." But Father Chisholm, appalled by "the folly ... of all human life," felt obliged to unmask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodness Made Readable | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...Grover Hall who broke the power of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. Back in 1927, when both Alabama Senators were members of the Klan, and Governor Bibb Graves was inclined to ignore frequent floggings, Editor Hall tore into the Klan tooth & nail, ended by forcing Klansmen to unmask. For his attacks on racial and religious intolerance he won a Pulitzer Prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Crusade Ended | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...mysterious Snooper Man, phantom Lowell House marauder, left his mark last night in the Bellboy library for the second time in a row, completely baffling a police force of tutors, yard police, and janitors which has been trying to unmask the culprit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL LIBRARY RAIDED AGAIN BY SNOOPER MAN | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

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