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Word: beans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passing over, residents were amazed to hear birds singing). Hundreds of beach cabanas were blown away, and many a majestic palm was blown down along Palm Beach's famed millionaires' row and at Miami's Hialeah race track. In the 'Glades farmland, citrus, ramie, bean and tomato crops were badly whipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Two-Punch Emma | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...little lacking in the Gielgud production. After a reasonably perfect rendering of "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Boston and New York, the company was enlarged for the present, more ambitions work. The chief addition is Cyril Ritchard, who plays Tattle, described in the program as "a half-witted bean, vain of his amours, yet valuing himself for secrecy." Favored with the most rewarding role, Ritchard struts about, using always the right high-pitched tone and the right decadent sweep of his silk handkerchief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

...want you to investigate. See what you can do for our mothers and wives, and for the little ones who may grow up to be even greater than our wonderful sluggers. Wipe the pitcher who passes off the field, send him to the showers, both hot and cold, bean him when he gets to bat, do anything, but don't let him give free bases on balls; it's undermining our culture and our very existence. And it was probably started by the * communists. Nosgood S. Persifiage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Mayflower women to go on a love strike, the men countering by importing a large shipment of Indian girls of every shape and size. The necessities of history force author Gilbert to reconcile the colonizers eventually, but not before he firmly establishes the true origin of the Boston Baked Bean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Speak for Yourself,' First Pudding Show in Five Years, Opens Tonight | 3/26/1947 | See Source »

...propensity for seersucker comes from my environment," Dolan opined yesterday. "I always like to be the first to get started." Like Bean Brummel, another figure distinguished by his mode of attire, Dolan prefers to set styles, not follow them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Style-setter Answers Summons of Spring with Unfeverish Seersucker Draping | 3/15/1947 | See Source »

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