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Word: foray (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more modern picture there is hardly enough dancing to whet the appetite. To make matters worse for the "Barkleys" Ginger Rogers took her interim foray in serious acting so serious as to attempt to portray Sarah Berahardt reading the Marseillaise. This is about the aesthetic equivalent of Jimmy Durante playing Abraham Lincoln at Get-tysburg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...more scalps dangled from CBS' belt this week when NBC's Red Skelton signed with the younger network. In an earlier foray CBS's William S. Paley, operating as a one man task force, captured ABC's Bing Crosby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rather Casual | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...foray went awry. In Mexico City, recently, cops jailed the proprietors of ten dress shops, quietly let them go a few hours later. The frocks were Mexican-made. So were the small black labels with "Made in America" in gold lettering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Carrier Rats | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Three probable changes in the starting lineup are the major results of the Varsity baseball team's unhappy foray into more southern stated last week, as the nine prepares for its home opener with Boston College on Saturday...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: Lineup Switches Probable as Nine Prepares for B.C. | 4/7/1948 | See Source »

...last game of this disasterous foray to the west, the sextet pulled itself together and matched the Gophers goal or goal until they broke away in the final stanza to hang up four goals and make the final score...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Hockey, Basketball Have Blue Christmas As Crimson Vacation Campaigns Backfire | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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