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Word: chummed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...like him if you've seen him the way we have. If you were a mother or father, Bob's the kind of guy you'd want for a son; if you were a fellow, you'd want him for a chum; and if you were a girl-well, just look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Strength of Ten | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

...second child, now let me see, what was his name? Bullfinch? Clapsaddle? For the life of me I can't remember! But I'll never forget Phineas Drybutter. A woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." One little girl repeated this story to her best chum, who said: "Why! my grandmother told just the same story-with different names, of course." And the little girls looked at each other wide-eyed, and said in solemn unison: A woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." Thus was an old saying born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 14, 1952 | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...favorite in the show. One advance-guard offering, a section of weathered wood decorated with horseshoe nails and bright paint, drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed her chum. Next to one garish green and red abstraction labeled The Eye (price: $1,400) somebody hung a piece of rope with the tag, "Hunk of Rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paintings in the Park | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

Incorruptible. In Chicago, bracing himself for this summer's national political conventions, Traffic Police Chief Michael Ahern advised his 1,100 cops to avoid calling delegates "Bud" or "Chum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 2, 1952 | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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