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Word: w (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know just how much blame goes to DuMaurier and how much to the people who followed the story so faithfully. It really doesn't matter. Ten minutes of W. C. Fields--not at his best--is not worth spending three hours to disprove a hypothesis. So, send an acquaintance...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

Some of the individual skits are very well done. W. C. Fields manages to wreak vengeance on road-bogs at large for the wrecking of his hard-earned flivver by a member of their clan. He manages to destroy five cars in the process, and to do so amusingly, George Raft, a forger, cannot cash his million-dollar check since the police are after him and no bank will take a draught with his writing on it. Gary Cooper and Jack Oakie lose theirs because they like to sock sergeants (they are in the Marines...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

There's nothing unusual about the present demand for bartenders and there are plenty of capable people around, according to James W. Holt, Director of Student Employment. He says that the production end is so lucrative that the barkeeps soon are sufficiently well-heeled to become consumers themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Employment Office Calls for Barkeeps | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...three Eliot House students who broke away from the Advocate to start a "less arty" magazine have met difficulties in the organizational stage and probably won't be able to issue their first magazine until shortly before the Christmas vacation, Norris W. Darrell '51 revealed yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Publication Strikes Obstacles | 11/3/1949 | See Source »

...prepare for the coming squeeze, the Provost named three men to the new committee. They are Dean Rogers of the Graduate School; John W. Teele, director of Student Placement; and Roger W. Hickman, assistant to the Provost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Picks Group To Study Coming Surplus in Ph.D.s | 11/2/1949 | See Source »

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