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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made him tops in a narrow field. He has done prize pigs, sheep and dogs as well-some of them in 24-carat gold inlaid with precious gems-but horses are his forte, at a fee of $1,800 to $30,000 apiece. "I used to feel a bit put out," says Haseltine with a deprecating shrug, "when people referred to me as 'the horse-sculptor chap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Horse-Sculptor Chap | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...picture leans a little too much on strained circumstance and unmitigated whimsy, but it has its moments. Shirley, in her climaxes of calf love, sees her hero in shining armor, putting on his helmet exactly as if it were a snap brim. Writer Sidney Sheldon has inserted a bit of adolescent dizzy-dialectic* that might even become epidemic. And the whole cast, notably Mr. Vallee, is obviously having a fine "time. So will most people, for The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer is good summer-weight comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 11, 1947 | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Married. Herman Shumlin, 48, bald, bespectacled, parlor-pink Broadway producer (Watch on the Rhine, The Male Animal); and Carmen England, 33, onetime screen bit player; he for the second time, she for the third; in Santa Monica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Nine hundred civilian Freshmen will make up the autumn contingent of the class of '51, he disclosed. "With about three and a half candidates competing for every vacancy, the selection was a good bit tougher than usual," Gummere declared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall's Freshman Class Tapers Off To Average Size | 7/29/1947 | See Source »

...boys picked up the phrase from a Brooklyn street squabble. They turned it over in their minds a bit, then, with piano, guitar and bass, tooled up a tune. By nightfall, "Nicholas, don't be so ridic'lus" was a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ya Ess Goony Gress | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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