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Word: bostonian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in its four and a half years, Information Please went on the road last week. Its four wise men plugged war bonds before 2,700 Bostonians at Boston's Symphony Hall. As usual, the troupe breezed through their question-&-answer broadcast with scarcely a miss, as did their Bostonian guest star, beaming young U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Boston's Bonds | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Married. Ogden Ludlow, 43, ex-husband of Actress Katharine Hepburn; and Elizabeth K. Albers, 24-year-old Bostonian; ten days after his doubt about the legality of the actress's eight-year-old Mexican divorce led him to divorce her in Connecticut; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Against towering Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playmg intimate of Adolf Hitler Bostonian Francis Wilson filed suit for $1,800, charged that he had advanced that sum for the education of Putzi's son at Harvard, never got it back. Son Egon Hanfstaengl left Harvard last year to join the U.S. Army Air Forces. His father was last heard from in a Canadian concentration camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

ASSIGNMENT IN GUIANA-George Harmon Coxe-Knopf ($2). An eventful and fast-moving tale of Nazi intrigue in South America, where a young Bostonian assists the Georgetown constabulary in the solution of two murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in April | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

...author, "of years of reading and study." They were wasted. Yankee Tom Bedloe is one of those curly-headed hommes fatals who, safe between the covers of a book, offer sure-fire fascination to literate housewives. There are three women in his life, all at once. One is his Bostonian fiancée Agnes, niece of General Wicks, who has charge of New Orleans. Another is a ruddy whoremistress who uses imitation gold dust in her hair and looks like a lioness. The third is a depraved Irish-French Baroness whose very touch, one is led to believe, can drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two for the Show | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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