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Word: yanks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dark Journey, A Yank At Oxford. While playing in The First Time-The Last, she met Laurence Olivier, to whom, when both receive their divorces, she will be married...

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

Like MGM's previous productions in England, A Yank at Oxford and The Citadel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips makes economical use of local actors, notably 300 students of Repton School who acted as extras during their vacation. Besides Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips employs only two performers who are likely to mean much in Hollywood. One is Terry Kilburn, 12-year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Almost 2,000 years ago, the Incas of Peru used to yank out aching teeth, then stick them back in their sockets and pray for them to grow firm again. It never worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tooth Graft | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...with incredible athletic prowess, a fine disdain for the weaker sex. He carries his beauty with boyish modesty. And just to rouse the dormant nationalism in the breast of every true American, he has gone to England--courtesy of M. G. M.--and taken it by storm. "A Yank at Oxford," now at Loew's, is a domestic flop which promises to become an international incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

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