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Word: boye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shmoon don't come over th' mount'in.") Nevertheless, Li'l Abner penetrated into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, where a sage clad only in his own beard, called Old Man Mose, frantically explained the shmoo situation to the intruder. "Shmoos, mah boy, is the greatest menace to hoo-manity th' world has ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Harvest Shmoon | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Even the Boy Scouts. When Vittorio announced his scheme in the tiny local headquarters of the Saragat Socialists, Comrade Vittorio Proietti almost banged his head on a low-hanging lamp as he jumped up to embrace Vittorio. Twice he embraced him, crying: "Comrade Excellency, Comrade Excellency, we shall win over to Socialism all of Arsoli's youth." Then an idea struck Proietti; he burst into long peals of laughter: "Why, we may even get Catholic Boy Scouts to turn Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE WATER OF ARSOLI | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...there are 100 employees and four Page Boy-owned stores (in Dallas, Los Angeles, Indianapolis and San Francisco), plus 250 other retail outlets. Last year the Page Boy grossed $1,026,584, on which the sister-partners netted better than 10%. This week, with profits still bulging, the Frankfurt sisters are starting work on a new Dallas building which will enable them to boost production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Battle of the Bulge | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

Edna, the cause of it all, is "in charge of production and merchandising." A third sister, Louise ("Tootsie"), who joined the team after finishing college, in 1941, now does all the designing. Last week the sisters had a new number they thought exciting: a Page Boy convertible. A few simple alterations transform it into a stylish post-maternity dress. Tootsie, recently married and pregnant, made the perfect model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHIONS: Battle of the Bulge | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...dispensable entertainment. Dane Clark, chauffeuring a gunman away from a killing, hits & runs from a pedestrian (Geraldine Brooks). Geraldine is almost as thorough a guttersnipe as Dane is. But according to this story, there's a lot of good in even the worst people. In any case, the boy remorsefully visits the girl in the hospital, never letting on, of course, that he was the driver. The girl, too, is pretending; she doesn't really feel sick at all. But Dane learns from the doctors that he has given her an inoperable whatsis, of which she is bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 6, 1948 | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

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