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Word: erful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's Kozac-ly what I was hoping," observed the Young-er. "I trust the Rodis smooth...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Brown More Bull Than Bear, Observes Oriental Speculator | 11/13/1948 | See Source »

...almost eerie calm of the campaign continued through election night. The vast throng which traditionally invades Manhattan's Times Square with horns, bells, whistles and placards simply did not materialize. Broadway crowds were small er than on any normal Saturday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES,HISTORICAL NOTES: Election Sidelights | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Since then, he and the Natural Seven have inflicted on the nation Pagan Ninny's Keep 'Er Goin' Stomp (from Violinist Paganini's Perpetual Motion), Moe Zart's Turkey Trot, Cigareetes, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women, and such publicity stunts as advertising for an ugly vocalist ("preferably with two heads. Neither must be attractive"). Through it all, Red has been miserable. Now things are going so well, he doubts if he'll ever get out of the band business. Says he: "It's like gumbo in the spring. You just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gumbo | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...False & Unfriendly." When the Mondays' house was invaded by Gulley Jimson, a ne'er-do-well painter, Sara's troubles came to a head. A family friend, whose conclusions were "false, and what was worse, unfriendly," tattled to Matt, and domestic peace was destroyed. Matt wasted away and Sara ran off with Gulley. Sara was happy, for Gulley "was the most of a man I ever knew." And even after he ran off with another woman and destitute Sara became a cook for eccentric old Mr. Wilcher, she was willing to steal for Gulley when he turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Moll Flanders | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...communal lunch and tea, they met in the bomb-scarred Great Hall of Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's London residence. They sat on hard wooden chairs (former conferences used comfort able armchairs and each bishop took home his chair as a memento). "There has nev er," commented the Manchester Guardian, "been a Lambeth Conference so free from princely affectation." "A Fearless Witness." "Marxian Communism ," the conferees declared, "is con trary to Christian faith and practice, for it denies the existence of God, Revelation and a future life; it treats the individual man as a means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Eighth Lambeth | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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