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Word: gal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were delighted with the sample plating he produced; orders flowed in and competitors began a wild but fruitless campaign to discover Magee's secret. A few weeks ago O'Connor gleefully put it into commercial production, a process which involved running an electric current through a 300-gal. stainless steel vat full of the perilous fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Amazing Brew | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

breath-taking sights of New York unroll before your eyes . . . ? Oh TIME in thy flight, you don't know the score, or else your Fifth Avenue Bus editor never took a gal for a bus ride on a hot summer's night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1947 | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...tasty Samoan dish named Feeta Feeta. Harder to handle will be Copper Calhoon, "not exactly a good girl, yet within the legal limits. She's the daughter of a Wall Street wolf and just as tough as her old man. It's much easier to make a gal a baddie than a goodie. My plots are complicated. You've got to read it every day so that you'll know what happens. Make it so they can't stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not for Kids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...Bing Crosby, add several measures of topflight tapping by Fred Astaire, sprinkle happily with a few cups of amusement by Billy De Wolfe and Olga San Juan, stir in 32 Irving Berlin tunes of ageless vintage, and include (more or less as a seasoning afterthought) a pretty feline-eyed gal whom the boys call Joan Caulfield. The final product--"Blue Skies"--should be, and is, by cinema standards, a fine bit of musical entertainment. Its conventionally silly plot has Caulfield vacillating between Crosby and Astaire but eventually marrying Bing, Mr. Right Guy. After loving him, she leaves him when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/30/1946 | See Source »

...Elliot calls a Woodwindtette. Says he: "We're trying to get more classical sounds. That way we get a sort of purple mood. Overseas the kids loved wild razzmatazz. But now they're back, they want sweet music. They just want to put their arm around their gal friend and romance slowly. Let's not kid ourselves, that's why they like my band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple Moodmaker | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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