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Word: byes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune of "Rock-s-bye Baby" with a set of hilarious lyrics from the daily race sheet; this is probably the funniest sequence in the movie...

Author: By Edward C. Moley, | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/22/1949 | See Source »

Fuller drew a bye in the semi-finals, and in the final round stopped heavier Stanley Britton of Lynn in 2:04 of the first round with a furious body barrage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heavyweight Title in Boxing Won by Fuller | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

TIME'S review of Horace McCoy's Kiss Tomorrow Good-Bye [TIME, May 10] was as insensitive as the review claimed Mr. McCoy's book to be ... No book can be this bad, even if it were transcribed from "the literature of men's-room walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Kiss Tomorrow Good-Bye is superior to both Cain and Hemingway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...dead-end kids were to write a novel, with the aid of an unabridged dictionary, the result might be something like Kiss Tomorrow Good-Bye. It is one of the nastiest novels ever published in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Guy | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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