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Word: doux (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven-year-old Larry Simms, the "Baby Dumpling" of the cinema's Blondie & Dagwood series, demanded $118,000 damages from radio's Baby Dumpling, 22-year-old Leone le Doux (a she). Grounds: imitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: $$$ | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Assembled after an hour's labor, it read: "Don't work too hard. " Billet-Doux. In Chicago, friends of Draftee Gerald Callahand wrote him the long letter he had asked for. It measured 340 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 7, 1941 | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...should answer [the Duce's] billet-doux, Deanna, you might ask him why he's more tender of American than of his own youth. . . . What leader started the business of war for the young anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Dearest Deanna | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Tout est plus doux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Wartime Songs | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Wrapping one arm around a leg of the counter, in order to retain his locus, he tried to decide what kind of a Valentine an athletic girl with blend hair and a tremendous appetite for expensive Scotch would like. Despairing of any rational choice, Vag grabbed the nearest "billet doux," threw a dime to the girl with the pasty smile, and releasing his hold on the counter leg, flew through the swinging door on a single bounce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/14/1940 | See Source »

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