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Word: wray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wiinner of the tournament was a Mrs. Wray Griffith. Her hole-in-one was the first made by a woman, the third by anyone, in the tournament's six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...When his faked act misses fire one night, he suddenly discovers that he has a real and appalling ability to see into the future. He correctly foretells one disaster and his fortune seems made. Except for one profitable Derby winner, further prophecies are all of death. His wife (Fay Wray) begins to think he is going mad and the public begins to think he is a menace. A solution, however, is handy. His clairvoyance possesses him only when he is in the presence of another woman (Jane Baxter), who serves as his "battery," charging him with psychic powers. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...goes, at Columbia, the Glendons, at Cornell, Jim Wray, at California minute Ky Ebright, at Pennsylvania, Rusty Callow, and at Washington, Al Ulbricks all stand-out coaches. The latter three are all Washington men, that institution in crew coaching today as Notre Dane does in football. Other stories might told about each of them. And more color can be found in the lakes and inlets rivers, upon which the crews train, but late in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 18 eyes will be on Poughkeepsie, in the seven lanes leading out from the west the Hudson river...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNOWING'S BIGGEST Thrill, "They're Off" at Poughkeepsie | 5/22/1935 | See Source »

...Richest Girl in the World (RKO). Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins) is a girl of fabulous wealth whose upbringing has been so secluded that no newspaper morgue contains a picture of her since infancy. This makes it easy for her to insure her privacy by impersonating her private secretary (Fay Wray), having her secretary impersonate Dorothy Hunter. When the young man Dorothy loves (Joel McCrea) appears, one deception leads to another. To make sure that the young man cares for her and not the Hunter fortune, Dorothy encourages him to make love to the secretary. Equipped with more common sense than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...have Cellini (March) killed, for fighting with a Medici. The Duchess (Bennett) wants him to remain alive until he has finished some gold plates for her banquet to the Duchess of Milan. When the Duke calls on Cellini, the artist is making love to Angela, his model (Fay Wray). The Duke changes his mind, pardons Cellini, takes his model to his summer palace. Presently the Duchess visits Cellini's workshop. She commissions him to make a key, asks him to bring it to the summer palace. Cellini arrives with the key while the Duke is entertaining Angela. When the Duchess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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