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Word: nag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...woman tourist spied a skinny old nag slumped neglectedly against a fence post near Charleston, wrote a beseeching letter to South Carolina's vigorous, Klan-cracking Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank. The Governor looked into the matter, offered a home for the aged horse at the Executive Mansion. Vowed he: "I love horses and everything connected with wild life. We'll never shoot him, I promise. Don't let the horse down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...because at the right time she was in Hollywood seeing darkly scowling Laurence Olivier. He looks like a swarthy Douglas Fairbanks Jr., is as British as young Douglas Fairbanks tries to be. When Olivier was acting with Katharine Cornell in No Time for Comedy, Vivien Leigh used to nag Director Fleming to speed up Gone With the Wind so she could fly to Manhattan and Laurence Olivier. When Vivien Leigh flew to Atlanta, for the premiere of Gone With the Wind, Olivier flew with her. A friend once called their love "the most beautiful thing I have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Reel | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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