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Word: funning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate raging over such statements. . ." and hopes that "they can be removed from the realm of partisan politics." It calls all this "an effort to encourage national unity." Now I can see well enough that it's nothing of the kind. It's an effort to poke fun at Dewey's speeches, and a silly effort at that. Almost anybody this side of Dogpatch knows that you could get the same results out of Hamlet if you removed single sentences here and there...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: Off The Cuff | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

With her trim figure, blonde hair and syrup-colored eyes, fun-loving Mitty González looks like a French fashion plate. She was the first in Santiago to wear the New Look. But unlike Eva Perón, another South American style-setter, she cares little for politics. Says she: "Women's suffrage will not necessarily mean that every woman must run for office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Housewife No. I | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Small Wonder (produced by George Nichols III) is a pleasantly wobbly little revue whose good moments don't come quite often enough. When it turns into a satiric shooting gallery, Small Wonder is frequently very lively fun. But when it takes to warbling ready-made love ditties, or to being briskly, blatantly youthful, it is as much of a trial as an error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Rope. Alfred Hitchcock's blood-freezer about two bright young men who murder for the fun of it, with John Dall, Farley Granger and James Stewart (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Thus did Freshman football coach Henry Lamar characterize his own personal problems at the end of Wednesday's "strictly-for-fun" practice. The first official practice session is this afternoon; before then, Lamar will know very little about the final makeup of his squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamar Examines Early Arrivals for '52 Football Team | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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