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Word: cinderella (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote detective stories for a living. In 1938 his father died, left him just $100. But his father's death also left Elisha a beneficiary of the trust that controlled L. E. Waterman Co. Elisha moved back into the company, was fulsomely hailed in the press as the "Cinderella Man" (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Waterman on a Rampage | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...puppet-actors, it proves too elaborate. A puppet Cinderella needs more than a fairy godmother's wand to make it come alive. All the Johann Strauss music in the world cannot make puppets waltz with Alt Wien charm. When they imitate human beings, they come to grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Show in Manhattan | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Five undergraduates with a taste for and taste in feminine pulchritude will have a chance to get their fill of that commodity by serving as judges in a beauty contest to pick "Miss Cinderella" from the ranks of a dozen local oomph girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE AESTHETIC MEN WANTED TO JUDGE 'MISS CINDERELLA' | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

...Glamor Girl of the East" is the title that will go to the Cinderella who wins the contest now being sponsored by the Union Photographic Society, which will be judged by popular vote and not by a "bunch of moss-backed society reporters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POPULAR VOTE WILL DECIDE PHOTO CLUB'S "GLAMOR GIRL" | 3/21/1940 | See Source »

...then it's midnight: cinderella-time in Boston. A policeman stands ready at the door; the blue law in action. Good night, sweet ladies. Ta, ta. See you at "The Eliot" next week. "It's costume party. Won't it be exciting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 3/16/1940 | See Source »

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