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Word: dizzier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having Wonderful Crime, in keeping with its title, is broader and dizzier than the new Thin Man, rather less shrewd and professional, but on the whole just about as entertaining. Whereas Thin's Nick & Nora Charles are a first-rate detective and a grade-A, sport-model wife, Crime's three amateurs (Pat O'Brien, George Murphy and Carole Landis) are cheerful dopes. Once they find Magician George Zucco daggered in his trunk in a resort hotel, they hightail off after every red herring in sight. Nicest character: a daft old dowager who likes to write gigantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...game. Once Bud shot a moose, but Connie never achieved his ambition for her. Friendly natives gave them an occasional bite of "Eskimo ice cream" (blueberries, snow, and seal oil). Sometimes they had so little to eat that they lost all desire for food and meandered down the river "dizzier than sick cats," sipping hot tea in the driving rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yukon Honeymoon | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...Last week, once again, peace rumors sent the stockmarket into a four-day tailspin that left it three points lower than it was after the last big piece of good news-the "surrender" of Italy. Up & down Wall Street's cave of the winds went gusty rumors, each dizzier than the last. Gusts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Cave of the Winds | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...great Rubber Scandal, far from being solved, moved into an even dizzier confusion, a Wonderland where jabberwocky jive talk about buna, butyl and guayule was the only language spoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Action, Action, Action! | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...clubs for huge sums and laughs when the stars fail to come through for their new owners. To the fury of the St. Louis fans, he sold his great pitcher, Dizzy Dean, to the Chicago Cubs for a reported $185,000, and in three years as a Cub the Dizzier won only 16 games. At swapping, selling or developing that strange commodity, ballplayers, Branch Rickey is without a peer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Old Brain | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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