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Word: compartmentation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yet for so able a writer, Bowles fails to give his story much significance. Both Port and Kit are neurotic intellectual playchildren so short on real character and appeal that they seem hardly worth saving. The death of one and the madness of the other seem appropriate but by no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sex & Sand | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Horseback & Hospital. When a star combines high sex appeal with low resistance to the demands of press-agents, she works all the harder. For The Girl from Jones Beach, Virginia Mayo put in appearances at ten towns on Long Island's south shore, with receptions by civic dignitaries at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Flesh | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

When he took off his pants in a sleeping compartment of the Barcelona-Bilbao express one night last week, New York's Congressman Eugene J. Keogh, Democrat, made a serious mistake. He hung them near the open window. In the next compartment, Congressman James P. Richards, Democrat, of South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In a Little Spanish Town | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

A Heavy Package. It had been a sharp and speedy investigation that brought Albert Guay before the bar. Five days after the crash a coroner's jury, which had studied reports on the broken wreckage of the unburned plane, blamed the disaster on a "mysterious explosion in a forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Flight to Baie Comeau | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Cagney gets rid of at least a dozen of these items all by himself, firing two through a door into the back of his chief officer, and using three more to shoot down another lieutenant who tries to give himself up. The remainder go off at various cops, except for...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

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