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Word: benedict (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sister Benedict, Ingrid Bergman manages to combine beauty, great good humor and saintly dignity even while swinging a baseball bat. Taking her role seriously, Actress Bergman played it without make-up (with no damage to her good looks), visited parochial schools to see how nuns actually behave, wore ballet slippers under her robes to perfect a gliding step. Bergman fans, delighted that their idol is currently appearing in three hit pictures, will have a hard time choosing a favorite from the nun in Bells, the New Orleans cocotte in Saratoga Trunk and the lady psychiatrist in Spellbound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...Include me out") Goldwyn is given the credit. It has worked out so well that actors and producers, all trying bravely to look like frustrated artists, have formed more than 100 independent companies. Newest comers: Burgess Meredith and his wife, Paulette Goddard, who have incorporated (with Benedict Bogeaus) as Camden Productions to make Diary of a Chambermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Independent Income | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...onetime driver of the crack Sydney-Melbourne express became Prime Minister of Australia last week. By a 3-to-1 vote, Joseph Benedict ("Chif") Chifley was chosen by the Parliamentary Labor Party to succeed the late John Curtin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Leftist Limited | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

Borrowing Benedict. In Detroit, Mrs. Helen Lukaszewicz, suing for separate maintenance, said that her husband borrowed $150 from her on the morning of their wedding, $450 that afternoon, $30,000 in the following six weeks, then left her, taking her engagement ring with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Tomorrow will see the big Company 4 event of the week. Gene Speer, after his bachelor party of last Wednesday down at Jake Wirth's will become a benedict at the Harvard Memorial Chapel. All of course, are invited...

Author: By Ens. T. X. cronin, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/11/1944 | See Source »

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