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Word: alabams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murmuring, "Good gravy!" Typical set: a remote Chinese village as cute as Christmas and twice as cheerful. Typical nurse: a little native number named Three Martini (Carol Thurston), who keeps her nurse's dress unbuttoned to expose a prettily filled Javanese brassiere. Typical pathos: a blinded Alabamian (named Alabam) who outhears everybody else and who, whenever there is dangerous confusion, cries: "Kin anybody see anything?" Typical use of music: a studio orchestra plays The Star-Spangled Banner, pianissimo, as the stranded stretcher cases watch the ship that refused to take them withdraw into a calendar sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

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