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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the screen-theater has finally discovered, as the legitimate theater did a century ago, that audiences eventually sicken of the modern romance and prefer something a bit more tangible and certainly more useful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/2/1947 | See Source »

...unexpectedly heavy. "Dirty Eddie" has many of the characteristics of its predecessors: the sensuous surface of champagne, nylons, and silly, suggestive talk remains as lush as ever, and if there is any change from the old Bemelmans, it is that he is more bitter, more satiric, and quite a bit less kindly toward the decadence that he is writing about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/1/1947 | See Source »

When you write of the "ugly strike" at Gary [TIME, Sept. 15], must you assume that the strike took place in an "ugly steel-mill town?" Isn't this carrying the literary unities a bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Harry Truman wanted to be in on a bit of U.S. history-making-the birth of the new National Military Establishment. He had planned a full-dress White House show this week for the swearing in of Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal. Last week the plans went out the window on a sudden breeze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man in Motion | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...early thirties, and on his return he had to assemble a completely new gridiron machine. But, his first postwar team achieved much more in the way of a notable record than did his initial squad in 1935. It was the same old Harlow pattern-merely encouraged a bit thanks to some of the best material seen along the Charles in a decade-and if the trend continues through the current season, Levi Jackson and associates will find the Yale Bowl warmer than it ought to be in late November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospectus, 1947 | 9/27/1947 | See Source »

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