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Word: bettye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tyrone, the level-headed old work cat, jumped up on his perch and sat there, solid as a rock. Betty and Patsy had been in heat; they were slow and sullen, but they went to their places without arguing. Zebou, the old rogue male, kept roaming, but Zebou always got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Dick's Bankroll | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Lavender & Jazz. In 1925, when the aroma of moonshine hung like lavender over the big Bull Market, Tammany ran him for mayor. He was the people's choice. He was an hour and a half late to his own inauguration and late to almost every public ceremony thereafter. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Late Mayor | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Blessed by Betty Crocker (General Mills's make-believe home economist, "sponsor" of Wheaties, Kix, Cheerios, Gold Medal flour, etc.), some 100,000 "Tru-Heat" irons had already gone on sale in the Midwest. Priced at $10.15, they were snapped up. With demand for almostj any iron at an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Betty Crocker Branches Out | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Betty was irate. She told her boss, who told his boss. Soon the case reached the ears of Major General F. A. Keating, Commander of U.S. Forces in Berlin, who told his deputy, dog-loving Colonel Frank L. Howley, to, investigate. The military court's order was reversed, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Roses for Kasha | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

Last week the Army prepared to resentence Walter for several months. "The rate at which these Germans are killing U.S. dogs is almost an open measure of defiance," said one officer. But Mrs. Tietz was philosophical. "One lives somehow," she said. As for Betty-she already had a new dog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Roses for Kasha | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

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