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Word: allens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presidential pretender out to out-stump Tom Dewey and all the rest is the Surprise Party's nominee-Gracie Allen, witling half of the radio & cinema team of Burns & Allen. Unannounced to audiences, last week Gracie sashayed into a half-dozen other people's radio programs to air her politicocomic aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Mars, Inc.-candy), and even in Washington (whither Gracie flew from Hollywood to attend the Women's National Press Club dinner and announce her convention: in Omaha, May 15-18), was a new twist to an old Gracie Allen stunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...documents, answered questions; he was permitted to ransack the Coolidge file of Frank W. Stearns, Boston department store tycoon and Coolidge's political deus ex machina; he talked to dozens who knew Coolidge. For his labors, Biographer Fuess has assembled more facts than did his livelier rival, William Allen White, whose Coolidge biography, A Puritan in Babylon, was published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Average Genius | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...would like to have all allen agitators, communist and fascist alike deported and to give their jobs to loyal American citizens now walking the streets looking for positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ham Fish Attacks War-Minded College Heads in Plea for Peace | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...TIME'S apologies to Author Allen, who followed the published version: Life is just a bowl of cherries Don't make it serious Life's too mysterious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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