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Word: darn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind darn-near made up was exhibited by Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh this week, when the ex-hero, naming no names, sharply questioned the "leadership" that was taking the U. S. "to weakness and to war." Said Radiorator Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minds Made Up | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...subscribers under the head: "Shall the Dead Live Again?" Lately it quipped editorially: "We see ... where they have started a new kind of paper [the tabloid, PM] in New York. No advertisements will be carried in it. There ain't nothing new about that idea-we have been darn near running that kind of paper* for ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wanted . . . | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Last week, while Hollywood made passes at Conchita, Grandfather Verrill, warming his 79-year-old bones in Florida's sunshine, frowned on his granddaughter's monkeyshines: "She's a darn fool and bound sooner or later to get killed." But spirited Conchita Cintron's only complaint last week was that Mexican bulls are not savage enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonder Girl Bullfighter | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...loathing for a Hollywood cutie named Robert Taylor. We have advocated impeachment, abdication, excommunication, even complete abolition. But the time has come for the bugle to call retreat. That male Wampas Baby Star is becoming an actor What has inspired this transformation, Heaven only knows, but "Remember?" is a darn good show, and Robert Taylor has done more than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience on through one fine comedy sequence after another and ends up with one of the funniest last-lines in film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Darn That Dream (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Mr. Dorsey does about as well by this de Lange ballad as Benny Good man did in the (late) show, Swingin' the Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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