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Word: aqua (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story, all about the warmed-over infatuation of a Navy pilot for a movie star he met on a U.S.O. tour, was also meant to be air-conditioned, but it gets a bit humid. Swimmer Williams should not have been asked to impersonate a film actress, but in her aqua-ballets and posturings in a bathing suit, she is a fine sight to see. Durante, at one point, reads a script line that sounds dangerously like a capsule review of On an Island: "I should have stayed in vaudeville. Then this wouldn't have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Though unaccustomed to Columbia's large, Grecian-styled, circular pool, which slows down swimming times, such aqua-stars as 220-man Walt Ballard, diver Bob Aaron, and Chuch Hoelzer in the breaststroke division should keep the Crimson churning out in front for most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Meet Lion Today As Ulen Forecasts Crimson Victory | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

...Standing before [Shamus O'Thames -pronounced O'Tems] naked except for a towel . . . was a strikingly beautiful white woman . . . glaring at him out of aqua marine blue eyes. . . . A cascade of golden blonde hair . . . fell over her face. . . . As will sometimes happen in moments of stress, his gaze focused . . . upon a . . . tiny mole, high up on her left breast. " Scram!" she cried, dashing a bucket of water over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Flynn's First Fling | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Shades with patriotic names are shown: Russian, Australian and Pacific greens; British rose; Iceland, Gallant, Commando, Salute, Alaska, Independence and Overseas blues; American wine; Valor and Freedom reds; Atlantic sand; Gunpowder, Air, Bomber and Pursuit greys; Hawaiian lime; Canadian violet, Panama aqua, Chinese earth, India copper, Pan-American red and Coral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Styles | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...second week of Prohibition (aqua variety) began in South Hadley yesterday, rumors of revolt against the totalitarians anti-bathing edict of President Roswell G. Ham seeped into the outside world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO BATHS FOR DIRTY AS SENIOK SCORNS PLEA | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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