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Word: karen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Colbert) comes West and Big John appropriates her. For 20 years Square John and Big John go on mooning over Claudette, bringing in gushers, getting rich and going broke like two big kids on a seesaw. When Big John begins to neglect Claudette for a saucy little baggage named Karen Vanmeer (Hedy Lamarr), Square John decides to wreck the seesaw for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...favorite among her works is Guiding Light, the story of a non-sectarian minister in a melting-pot community, into which she pours most of her philosophy and night-thoughts. It is in Woman in White, though, that Irna gets in some of her most telling licks. Featuring Karen Adams, a heroic nurse, Woman in White, like many other script shows, is remarkably independent of radio's taboos. Only recently Nurse Adams was doublecrossed by her fiance, Dr. Kirk Harding, who got a girl named Janet Munson with child. To make matters worse, Janet had whisked off and married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Script Queen | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Recently she was given a new Plymouth convertible coupe by the agencies in recognition of her anniversary. She calls it "Sheila." Proud of her achievements, Irna still isn't happy. "I'd give it all up," she says, "if the right man came along." (Fade up to Karen Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Script Queen | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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