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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flames Myron Selznick, Hollywood's No. 1 agent, stepped over to his brother. With him was his British client, wasp-waisted, tilt-browed, hazel-eyed Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (pronounced Lee), who had slipped into Hollywood allegedly to see Laurence Olivier. Said Myron Selznick to David Selznick: "Dave, I want you to meet Scarlett O'Hara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think of it tomorrow" was a catch line. Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind was a first-rate piece of Americana, and Americans in the mass knew what they wanted before the critics had got through telling them they should not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

When Artist Hoffman dislikes one of his pictures, he paints another over it. Failures lurk behind most of his canvases. Thus hidden is the painting that first brought him fame-Rubbish, which showed a derelict sitting next to an ashcan. "When I do a bad thing," he says, "I want to be the first one to know about it and the first one to destroy it. I can paint, I know I can paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mine Painter | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

What I really want is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: To Santa | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

That's what I want for Chris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: To Santa | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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