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Word: zaniest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Circulating Millinery. In Paris, Madame la Comtesse Monique de la Moissonière launched a new fashion scheme: a "circulating library" for hats. From her stock of 100, women can rent the latest and zaniest at 500 francs for 24 hours (special offer: twelve hats a month for 3,000 francs). Said the countess: "This is my version of American mass production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Making a troupe slightly reminiscent of the Andrews Sisters but looking the way the Sistors A must have always wanted to look-the girls sing and swing through one of the fastest moving and zaniest comedies we've seen for quite some time. Betty Hutton does herself up brown by way of making new endurance records-90 minutes without standing still-and by doing an effective drunk scene that made us head for the nearest bar as soon as the show was finished. Dorothy Lamour looks a little strange in pinafores, after sarong in sarongs, but she is able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 8/1/1944 | See Source »

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