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Word: autograph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hate the music business" . . . "They won't let you stay at the top. They won't give you a chance to breathe" . . . "Autograph hunters? To hell with them! Often I've played for 2,500 or 3,000 people and 1,000 would stand around the stand staring at me. They aren't listening--only gawking" . . . "Then they want autographs. Nothing doing! I'm too busy with my job. Sometimes I let my valet sign my name, and they're just as satisfied." . . . "My friends say I'm a damned fool. They say that these people made me. Want...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...Oldtimer Weir, matching aggressive play with brilliant tactics, kept the partisan crowd of 1,500 in seesawing shrieks of delight and dismay before young McDaniel won the match and title, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Besieged by dusky damsels, Champion McDaniel was swept off the court, signed his autograph until his hand was numb. They all thought he was good enough to represent the U. S. on the Davis Cup team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jim Crow Tennis | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Angeles last fortnight for an eastern personal appearance tour, among the crowd that saw him off at the station was a wrinkle-faced, red-mopped little man who looked enough like Mickey Rooney to be his father. Soon the news got around that he was. Asked for his autograph, Comedian Joe Yule, at 44 the veteran of 36 years on the professional stage, smilingly consented. Said he: "It's the first time anybody ever asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mickey's Old Man | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...oldtime actor who has four other children in the movies Cinemactor Watson has appeared in 29 pictures, now earns about $800 a week He got the role of Pud after its Broadway incumbent, 8-year-old Peter Holden, was judged too mature for the part. Swamped by autograph seekers at the preview of On Borrowed Time, he grandly observed: At times like these I sometimes wish I wasn't in pictures. But really I like them and don't feel that way when I realize how much happiness they bring to everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...raise Spanish refugee relief funds, aphrodisiantic Stripper Louise ("Gypsy Rose Lee") Hovick auctioned off two autographed bestsellers: Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's This Is My Story, Thomas Mann's Joseph in Egypt. To make them real collector's items she added her own autograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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