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Word: flirts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raised. Reasons were partly moral, partly not. Russia had snitched three Baltic States while Germany's back was turned, and the Berlin-Moscow axis was a little strained. Moscow seemed to be making eyes at Washington, and the State Department, to encourage an axis quarrel, was ready to flirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Moral Lapse | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

French Without Tears (Paramount) is based on Terence Rattigan's romantic farce about an attractive flirt (Ellen Drew), who runs amorously amok in a French school for future British diplomats. One of the pictures which under the present quota arrangements Paramount must make every year in England, French Without Tears has not been very vigorously exploited in the U. S.-as if the studio were a little ashamed of it. There is nothing to be ashamed of. It rattles pleasantly enough down its well-worn groove, lubricated by a flow of bright quips and excellent performances by Roland Culver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Next step was to find a gay, frothy, fluffy musical, which would take Cinemactress Neagle right back where she started, would restore to musicomedy one of its prettiest faces and two of its smartest dancing legs, give Queen Victoria's double a chance to dance, sing, flirt, wear billowy dresses, publicly demonstrate that she is not a day over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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