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Word: bores (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Certainly," said the Devil. "In my line we try to keep up with all the latest religious fiction. Rather a bore these days. But The Gauntlet has something special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil & James Street | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...letter, on stationery of the Chief of Staff's Office, bore a bold heading: TOP SECRET. FOR MR. DEWEY's EYES ONLY. Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, his curiosity piqued, read rapidly through the first two paragraphs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secret Kept | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Year of Plenty. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Mrs. Zack Gabel bore her fourth child in eleven months-twins again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Charles Spencer Chaplin, 56, proclaimed that he was an expectant father for the fourth time. (He denies fathering Joan Berry's daughter.) The mother: Fourth Wife Oona, 20-year-old daughter of Eugene O'Neill. She bore No. 1 to the silvering comedian in August 1944, awaits No. 2 next March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dogfights | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...live with an American family. Before the family catches on, she has turned the kids against their mother, planned a kidnapping, committed one murder, attempted a second. The play might have been a fascinating character study or a menacing yarn. But Leda is bungled and the story is a bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Other New Shows In Manhattan | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

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