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Word: chipmunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasant surprise in That Midnight Kiss is Mario Lanza, a young (27) tenor with the spry, nonsensical air of a chipmunk and an Americanized-Caruso voice which gives style and seriousness to the whole production. His least appealing quality, which Metro will apparently exploit for some ten musicals, is the smily, complacent bounce which places him in Hollywood's long list of boys who rouse the maternal instinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Grant Jackson, 6, a second-grader, bagged the vacation reading championship of Hobart, Okla. by plugging through 120 books (104 of them read aloud to his brother, Mike). Among the books: The Lady Bug Who Couldn't Fly Home, Scatter the Chipmunk, Eagle Jack and Indian Pete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...press agent reports that Miss Taylor's zoo now includes two horses, three dogs, two cats, birds, and a chipmunk named "Nibbles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Actress Joins Literati To Open Arms to Freshmen | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo was as full of answers as a Quiz Kid. On Mutual's Meet the Press program last week, the Senator from Mississippi chattered like an angry chipmunk, made one admission he might regret in a cooler moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: K. K. K. | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...ridden in his youth, unsentimentally handed it over to scrap collectors. Oil-rationed citizens all over the nation worried about the winter, but in long-limbed Cinemactress Loretta Young's heart was no dread. To keep warm on a midwinter night in California she had a solution: chipmunk pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Light Wines & Fondant | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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