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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The acting in a DeMille picture bears about the same relation to ordinary acting that a DeMille spectacle bears to everyday life. Holding up the florid tradition of black-hearted villainy are George Sanders and Henry Wilcoxon. Mature is suitably curly-haired and big-muscled as Samson. For all her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Bride for Sale (RKO Radio) is a tired old triangle farce in which three veterans crank out the creaking whimsy. As a high-powered tax consultant, Claudette Colbert spends her days poring through income-tax forms looking for a home-loving rich husband. To keep her in his employ, George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

"The remembered war," says George McMillan, onetime technical sergeant in the 1st Marine Division, "is sometimes very different from the fought war." In The Old Breed, his division's remembrance book, Author McMillan lets his facts about fighting fall where they may, gives the full treatment to the asides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

During its four months on Guadalcanal the division was almost written off several times. When asked whether the hard-pressed leathernecks could hold the first beachhead in the Pacific war, Navy Secretary Knox said: "I don't want to make any predictions, but every man out there, ashore or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Manners for White Women. Finally, on Pavuvu, part of the division was marked for rotation. Hints on good manners were printed (anonymously) for those going home after two years in the South Seas: "Say 'Please pass the butter.' You DO NOT say, 'Throw down the grease ...'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of the Pacific | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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