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Word: pints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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William S. Knudsen is grey-haired, bulky, ruddy. Walter Philip Reuther is rufous, pint-sized, pale. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther first knocked their heads together when one worked for General Motors, the other for the C. I. O. autoworkers' union. Frazzled after a tough bout with a union committee in Detroit, G. M.'s Knudsen once glared at Walter Reuther, barked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: A PLAN FOR PLANES | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Eager vendors on the show have offered Bartlett sets of false teeth, even sold heads of hair for $45. Shearing of the hair-seller was done by a lady barber on a holiday who got $5 for her efforts. One young man brashly agreed to take $2 for every pint of milk he could wring from a cow named Lucky that Bartlett brought to the studio. At show's end, he had made just $2. Other You Sell Me chores are blowing up large balloons till they break, trying to kick oneself in the pants. To protect his show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Lunatic Fringe | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Last month H. H. Lady Sylvia, the 56-year-old white Ranee of Sarawak, arriving in Canada, appalled her native Britain by denouncing its child evacuees as "young riffraff of England." Last week she appeared at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, gave a pint of her blue blood to Britain, did not stipulate any particular donee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 7, 1940 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...Town, moved directly from that to The Howards, ended up earning $500 a week. Martha once occupied a small Manhattan apartment with four other girls who selected their guests according to "the length of cigaret butts they would leave." She now lives in a small house with a pint-sized swimming pool in Beverly Hills, employs a man & wife to run her household, drives her Buick convertible coupe herself, dresses sloppily, avoids nightclubs. Frank Lloyd observed: "I haven't had an actress like Martha Scott since Pauline Frederick. They are damn few and far between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 16, 1940 | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...marred only by the fact that each was married to someone else, finally married each other last week (see p. 38). Mickey Rooney received a new contract from his studio allowing him $100 a week for pin money, $900 for living expenses, $1,000 for his old age. Pint-sized Carl Laemmle Jr. found his stretching exercises had added an inch to his height. Orson Welles continued directing his film Citizen Kane from a wheel chair after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey, had to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Busy Bodies | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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