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Word: funning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fun & Games. In Texarkana, Ark., charged with aggravated assault for severely wounding her husband with a knife, Mrs. Hazel Washington stoutly maintained in court: "We play like that all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Heart of Gold," concerns a starving Broadway actress and her whole starving company, who attempt to open a summer theater in a barn, left to the actress by a philanthropic aunt. The plot evolves around the fun and games the actors have with the sheriff and local motion picture theater owners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pudding Plans New Musical Show for New York, Yale | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...first session of the 81st Congress, which had begun its work in high hope ten months ago and passed through despairing depths, ended last week in wan and shaky congratulations among the Democratic majority. There was a great deal of tired, last-minute fun: barbershop ballads, a few well-placed smooches on the cheek by departing Congresswomen and gay festivities by congressional employees (see cut) whose salaries had just been raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Record | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...starring Gary Cooper," a sweeping cavalcade that sweeps (sic) the world's oceans to bring you the rich, human story of the men who stood by what they believed in--AND THE WOMEN WHO STOOD BESIDE THEIR MEN." Includes secret Navy combat films if that's your idea of fun...

Author: By "g." Ripzky-korastoff, | Title: Boston Beckons Visitors with Burlesque, Cuisines, Movies, Cabarets, and Football | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

When it's dark on the Radcliffe Quadrangle, you can't always tell your date from a hole in the ground. Anyway, that's what happened to a student last night; he plunged in up to his ears, and it wasn't fun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wholesome Student Suffers Downfall on Radcliffe Quad | 10/21/1949 | See Source »

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