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Word: dowd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never Wave at a WAC (Independent Artists; RKO Radio) suggests that the ladies of the Women's Army Corps, like the Northwest Mounties, always get their man. The heroines of this romantic recruiting poster are a spoiled Washington hostess (Rosalind Russell) and a stripteaser named Danger O'Dowd (Marie Wilson). Enlistment in the WAC does both of them good. Haughty Rosalind Russell becomes simple and sincere and is reunited with her ex-husband (Paul Douglas). The stripteaser finds true love with a quartermaster sergeant (Leif Erickson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 12, 1953 | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Judge Thomas H. Dowd awarded a disputed liquor license to Stanley L. Moriarty of Fairfield St., chief examiner for the bonus division of the State Treasurer's office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superior Court Upholds Decision To Revoke Sage Liquor License | 9/23/1952 | See Source »

...announcing his finding, Dowd dismissed the petition of the Sage Co. that had sought to quash the action of the A.B.C. in authorizing the license to Moriarty last November. The Sage Co. contends it had gained the necessary license from the Cambridge Liquor License Commission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superior Court Upholds Decision To Revoke Sage Liquor License | 9/23/1952 | See Source »

...Sage Co., which runs a delicatessen and liquor store on Brattle st., indicated through counsel Edward Dangel it will appeal Dowd's ruling to the State Supreme Court. Dangel said he didn't think he "had been given a full hearing in this court." He argued he did not have ample chance to present his case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superior Court Upholds Decision To Revoke Sage Liquor License | 9/23/1952 | See Source »

Fathers Timothy O'Connor and Desmond O'Dowd needed $28,000 for a new parochial school. They designed some leaflets listing England's top football games on one side and a likely winner at one of the nation's race tracks on the other. In return for a down payment of a shilling initiation fee and a shilling a week thereafter, they invited their parishioners to 1) become members of their Church Development Society, 2) take a chance on a weekly football pool, and 3) receive free the society's'"Dead Cert Nap Selections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rectory Handicapping | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

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