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Word: characterizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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But the prospect this week was that hearings on Mr. Roosevelt's priced package would be over in a fortnight or so. Unless the profits tax rates are upped, the three proposals should then go through intact under the leadership of Congressional Tax Boss Pat Harrison, who is working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Excess-Profits Tax | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

Daybreak (French) is built on a dramatic foundation often tried and usually untrue: the device of discovering a character in a narrow corner, where he sits obligingly remembering his story for the camera. The story that passes before the blank eyes of François (Jean Gabin) in his garret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

For four years, during World War I, Texan Knott lambasted Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Franz Josef. His savage drawings were reprinted all over the U. S., ater were published in a book. The war over, Cartoonist Knott grew genial again, adopted a lanky, mustachioed character, 'Old Man Texas," based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Austrian-born Artists | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

A favorite device for eliminating an actress from a script is to reveal that the character she portrays has to go away to have a baby. Few weeks ago, Alice Frost, who plays the title role in CBS's Big Sister, managed to get away from it all when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Absent Ladies | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Sometimes it is possible to pretend that a character is knocking around the house, even though he doesn't open his mouth. Gertrude Berg, who turns out The Goldbergs for CBS, has done this with a character named Rosie for the past five weeks. Rosie has apparently been in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Absent Ladies | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

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