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Word: boomerangers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Konstantin Berman, one of Moscow's favorite clowns, did his best to remedy the lack. He strutted into the ring dressed in mauve zoot-suit jacket and pinstripe trousers. "I will now demonstrate the Marshall Plan," said Berman, holding up a boomerang. The boomerang, he explained, was the dollar. When he threw it in the air, the missile split and two dollar-boomerangs returned to his hands. The crowd roared out its applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Don't Laugh, Clown! | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Mistrusting Hollywood, he and the producers are considering doing an independent film version, directed by cinema-wise Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement, Boomerang). Other Miller projects: two new plays, one a "pathetic comedy" about an Italian worker in Brooklyn's Red Hook section, and a novel set on the Brooklyn waterfront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Briggs Hall residents got a boomerang "thank you" for their pre-Christmas party for settlement house children when a quartet of seven-year-old boys descended on the dorm last Sunday for more Radcliffe entertainment--and ice cream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Youngsters Storm Briggs Hall To Demand Repeat of Xmas Party | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

...Murder at Harvard" 'will deal with the department's activities in assisting the state police in murder cases involving pathological research, Dr. Moritz's speciality. In its strictly factual approach, Taylor said, it will resemble "Boomerang," MGM's successful 1946 courtroom drama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MGM Maps March 'Murder' | 1/5/1949 | See Source »

After hopefully holding the favored Cadet junior varsity to one touchdown through the first three periods of play, the Jayvee aerial attack shattered into a fourth quarter boomerang that produced a 32 to nothing defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cadets Blank J.V. Eleven 32-0 with 'T', Interceptions | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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