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Word: blonds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ebbet's Field, planned to use it in irrigating the infield grass. Ernie's Enterprises, a St. Louis firm, announced that it had orders for 50,000 Eagle Beaks-hornrimmed spectacles with large false noses attached to them. U.S. citizens were also snapping up Miss Gorgeous Blond Fan Dancing Photos (smiles and dances before your eyes), Nature Boy Squirt Ash Trays, Hollywood Floating Cutie Doll Pencils, Goofy Eggs (won't stand still unless you know the secret) and Magic Light Bulbs (mysteriously lights while held in your hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Fun for All | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Last week Munich saw the first comprehensive show of new German art since the war. Held in Hitler's onetime headquarters, the massive FÜhrerbauhaus, it contained not a single blond Balder, buxom BrÜnnhilde or veiled Valhalla of the sort Hitler had liked to see. There were few still lifes or portraits either, and surprisingly few bitter or tragic pictures such as George Grosz and Kathe Kollwitz had made between wars. Instead of all that, the best young German painters were doing abstractions, by the acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern in the Dark | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...officials of Austria's National Bank were looking for ideas on how to decorate a new issue of 50-schilling notes. They finally decided to use a picture of a sturdy little boy named Thorleif Capri, whose blond-curls and cherubic features seemed just the thing to symbolize the pure integrity of Austrian credit. Thorleif's likeness is still on the notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Face & Hands | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...appear in the stadium scenes, nor in the torchlight undertakings, whose purpose was to make the individual forget himself and his responsibilities in the Movement. But the act in the city itself played up the connection between the Party and German culture. Hitler was shown accepting flowers from children (blond almost without exception), shaking hands and talking with idolizing women in peasant costume, smiling with surprise at unexpected applause during a speech. The Camera trip through the Medieval part of the city, accompanied by pastoral music, and the final parade through the city itself consciously, emphasized the revitalization...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 1/12/1950 | See Source »

During the singing of the last hymn, a tall, blond man with angular features and deep-set eyes made himself a little conspicuous by fooling with some wires which seemed to run from him down to the edge of the stage. This man turned out to be Billy Graham who had been connecting his lapel microphone to the amplifying system...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 1/11/1950 | See Source »

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