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Word: adame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adam's Rib (MGM) again presents Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as the ideal U.S. Mr. & Mrs. of upper-middle income. This time, besides being wittily urbane, both are lawyers. The determined deadpan whimsicality of their relationship is indicated by the fact that he calls her Pinkie and she calls him Pinky. Hepburn's elegantly arranged bones and Tracy's assurance as an actor make them worth looking at in any movie, but the stars are called on for some aggressive cuteness in this one. Item: during a courtroom duel between them, Pinky is forever dropping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Instead, he is more interested in what happens to the handful who survive to wander over the bare world like ants in the hand of God. Two of the survivors, Ish and Em, meet and begin as bravely as Adam & Eve to repopulate the world. Soon others join them, and by the time Author Stewart leaves The Tribe, it seems to have grown to a community of several hundred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doomster | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...also claimed that Adam Mouzenldes, convicted for the murder, had died a month before the crime, and that there was complete contradiction in the facts about the evening of the slaying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polk Trial Battle Of Greek Politics, Brother Declares | 10/19/1949 | See Source »

...Adams capitalized on Lowell's case of fumbleitis in notching its victory. After a ragged first period the Goldcoasters' Don Nosek blocked a Lowell punt and on the next play Roger Davis scored through the middle. A Belboy fumble set up another Davis score after the line had stopped the Adam's team on the twenty. The flashy Davis went across again in the final minute of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett 6, Eliot 26; Adams Beats Bellboys, 20 to 0 | 10/15/1949 | See Source »

...character and drama. Then he began a patient, persistent search-among his friends, in public places, on trains and planes-for the faces that would fit his conception of the prophets and kings of Israel. Only one picture was posed: his son and daughter-in-law became Adam & Eve. The rest of the illustrations, painted without models, were combinations of Rowe's invention and memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Old Testament Faces | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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