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Word: charmers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again. Playwright Hart puts anything on the stage that he wishes?a love affair, sophisticated neuro-drama. fashion parades, farce, musical dream fantasias. And the lovely editress learns that she really wants to be less editorial and more seductive, to love not the married man but a cocky young charmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...frequently, Delaney, always reticent about his personal life, was something of a mystery man even to his close friends. In 1934 he published his first book, The Lady By Degrees, followed it next year with The Charm Girl, advertised as the "scream-line correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend." Typical sentence: "Remember darling, you can't always judge a man by how he looks as by where he glances, which sometimes makes me long for the good old days when Fanny was a girl's name." Now almost 60, grey at the temples, Delaney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mr. Wisecrack | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Whenever Robert Alphonso Taft, 50, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has run for office, the electorate has done two things: 1) scoff at him, 2) vote for him. Mr. Taft is no charmer, but he gets elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Up from Plenty | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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