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Word: bedroomed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Love." Joan Berry's memory of Dec. 23, 1942-the night on which she claims that little Carol Ann was conceived-amounted to total recall. That night, she said, having heard no word from Chaplin for two weeks, Joan went to his home and stormed his bedroom, brandishing a gun. She said: "I'm almost out of my mind. You never called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just a Peter Pan | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Chaplin's version of the same night: "She invaded my bedroom. She had a gun. She circled around me. I asked her what was up and she said she was going to kill herself in my home to create a scandal. She insisted on staying and I told her she could sleep in the guest room. I gave her some night clothes and didn't see her again until the next morning." How long had it been since Chaplin and Miss Berry had ceased being lovers? Chaplin: "Oh, some time in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just a Peter Pan | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...mistake to wait for customers to come in. So he set up a force of "public relations" men who checked daily on new building permits. They interviewed home builders before the ground was broken, often got them to let Barker's supply everything from paring knives to bedroom suites, at prices for every pocket. Tables cost as little as $10, as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Los Angeles Spirit | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...bedroom had a refrigerator and bar and an oyster-white rug, often littered with phonograph records or clothes. She liked to be interviewed in bed in the late afternoon and sometimes leaped from the covers in a transparent nightgown to admire herself in the mirror. Sometimes, at parties, she raised her dress neck high, to show that she had a compact little body and a magnificent overall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Guadaloupe | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...night last week she had a long chat with two close friends. She was distressed, and she said so. The friends left at 3:30 a.m. Lupe whistled for her dogs, went to her bedroom. She undressed, stepped into blue silk pajamas, sat down on her huge bed to scribble a note. In her childish scrawl she wrote: "Harald: May God forgive you and forgive me too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring in him with shame or killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Guadaloupe | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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