Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounds like a nostalgic pastiche of great moments from the great MGM musicals of the 1940s and '50s, and it would probably be O.K. with Woody Allen if a lot of people out beyond his cult took to Everyone Says I Love You on just that simple level. But we've left out the song-and-dance routine he stages in a hospital corridor. And the novelty number in the funeral parlor. And the fact that the streets through which his people hoof and warble Tin Pan Alley chestnuts are not glamourized back-lot representations of New York City...
...discovered the remains of another of the 230 dead, leaving 15 still unaccounted for. Salinger says the FBI has encouraged him to continue his investigation. If he's wrong about the missile theory, he says, it would be "the first mistake I've made since the 1930s or early 1940s." One hopes the official investigators on the case are driven by a more humble attitude...
...first human kidney transplant was performed at Harvard, and the goldfish swallowing craze of the 1940s was started by a Harvard student, Lothrop Withington...
...away scot free," he says, adding that he was a tough kid not to be trifled with. "Hopefully no Washington, D.C. residents read this article and remember back to Halloweens in the 1940s...
...think that's how he saw himself at the end. Invictus, one of F.D.R.'s favorite poems, was popular in the storm-tossed 1940s and would have been known to a lieutenant named Dole. It is a poem about fierce human will, a poem you might call proud or braying, depending on your taste. And you could say the Dole campaign at the end was a similar kind of poem...