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Word: gail (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tabloid's customers raced on to read about five-year-old Gail Nicoletti, a front-page picture of health (see cut). Her demented father had thrown her and her brother from a 125-ft. bridge, then jumped himself. She had survived, though her mind had become blank. Now, the Daily News reported: MEMORY STIRS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Abnormal | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...HURLED OFF SPAN. "The SUnshine streamed in-Gail is getting well." Jujitsu & Tears. In a nearby column was a "blonde Portia" who was her own lawyer in her suit against her father and stepmother. They wanted to "railroad" her to an insane asylum, she said, purportedly to get their hands on her cash. One day she used jujitsu on an opposing lawyer; the next day she "became the traditionally soft woman-tears and all ... broke down . . . and wept freely . . . several jurors and spectators wept with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Abnormal | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...remembered for his excellent performance in "Red River," does rather well as the hero, a tough sea captain. Where the script calls for fast, brutal action, Mr. Wayne provides some exciting moments, but he is obviously ill at ease when required to drool into the ear of his sweetheart, Gail Russell. Luther Adler plays opposite Wayne as a calculating Dutch trader. The part written for him is so ridiculous, so frighteningly sinister that it becomes impossible to tell whether he can act or not. A ham could wallow in this muck forever and no one would be the wiser...

Author: By George G. Daniels, | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...citizens had their worries. Said John Kay: "I don't like a man in debt and over his head like our government is." He worried about Russia too: "When they get China they'll come after us." But for all that, almost everyone agreed with Gail Abrell that Freedom had plenty to be thankful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: The Christmas Cantata | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...this is told in flashback; now the seer's alarm is focused on Virginia's grown-up daughter (Gail Russell). He becomes entangled in a whole chain of symbolic predictions about her: a crushed flower, shaken windows, violent death in starlight at 11 sharp, at the feet of a lion. Gail's scientific sweetheart (John Lund), Detective Shawn (William Demarest) and various shifty-looking businessmen who might profit by Gail's death, all act as if Robinson were crazy or criminal. Everybody tries to keep him away from the menaced young woman he is trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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