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Word: cupidity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshmen will get the jump on spring term social activities Saturday with a "Cupid's Caper" dance. Valentine's Day provides the motif for the weekend festivities and an excuse to crown a "Valentine Queen of the Dance." Four '52 men who organized themselves into a barbershop quartet for the Yale dance will perform again Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '52 Plans Dance For This Weekend | 2/10/1949 | See Source »

...Last surrender to cupid's feather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virginians | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...cupid! Cast away your bow and quiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: O God! O Kinsey! | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Sidney Webb was shy and 31, Beatrice Potter* ardent and 32, when Cupid realized that they were made for each other. Courtship began at the Glasgow Co-operative Congress of 1890, where Sidney hewed one of Beatrice's political articles to pieces and rewrote it. In 1891, thrown into each other's arms at the Lincoln Cooperative Congress, they secretly plighted their troth. A year later they were off on their honeymoon-an impassioned examination of Dublin labor problems, rounded off with a joint appearance at the Glasgow Trades Union Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Among the Statistics | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...wedding cake were all set. It would be only a four-layer austerity affair, with a few decorative accents (Elizabeth's and Philip's crests, small reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials, the crest of the Royal Navy, the badges of the ATS and the Girl Guides, a representation of H.M.S. Valiant, the badges of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India and Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Resting Comfortably | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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