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Word: dolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...wont he arrived at 8:30, a half hour late for the lecture. His sense of the fitness of things was shocked to find such a crowd assembled at the door of Emerson D that he couldn't get in. He heard only snatches of comment about "The Doll's House" and "Ghosts" and he vowed to break Vagian tradition and arrive on time the next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...hushed rooms of the small bungalow were cluttered with dolls, doll furniture, toys. It was early morning and the only ones up were Barton Davis and two of his children, whom he warned to be quiet: the other two children and their mother were still asleep. He helped three-year-old Marquis get dressed, told ten-year-old Daphne to take care of him, kissed the two goodby, and left them making toast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Horror Story | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...most people she continued to look and act like a doll-faced, taffy-haired Wampus cutie, and those who thought about her at all thought of her as Olivia de Havilland's kid sister and the wife of Brian Aherne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...doll a roofing. You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and play tricks with it. . . . No, no, and it is no. It is confused and it says no. A boy has never wept, nor dashed a thousand kim. And you hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mobs & Machines | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Ever since she made her first appearance in Mexico last summer (and killed three bulls in one afternoon), Conchita has been first in the hearts of Mexican bullfight fans. Only 17 years old and weighing 108 lbs., she looks like a beautiful porcelain doll. In the ring she is not only exquisitely graceful-especially on her prancing, high-stepping mount-but absolutely fearless...

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

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