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Word: comical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Astounded U.S. officials reflected that neither Hill nor Jones could speak a word of Czech, probably wouldn't know a military secret from a comic book, and had blundered across the border without entry papers; it seemed almost certain that the Czechs were simply using them as a way of getting even. Since the first of the year, a U.S. military commission at Munich had sentenced a series of Czech spies to long prison terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Over the Hill | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 59, longtime cinema comic, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 23, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their third child (his seventh, including the daughter of onetime protégée Joan Berry), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Josephine Anna. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Paleface. Bob Hope in a comic horse opera (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Other points of interest include Robert Young, who hasn't changed a bit since the picture was made, and the characterization, strange in this day of science-on-the-comic-pages, of engineers as earnest young men who scurry around in knee-breeches lugging a surveyor's transit under each arm. Young appears thoroughly crocked for the majority of the movie, which is no loss. It makes you appreciate Hepburn just so much more...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

...Paleface. Bob Hope in a comic horse opera (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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