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Word: gentlemanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old salesman, paid extra (minimum rate: about 50? a week) to get a picture of the Bavarian Alps in his "love-wanted" ad. It ran: "What fraulein would like to go on a two-week holiday to Bavaria by automobile, all expenses paid? Congenial and well-to-do gentleman seeks blonde at least five feet tall, not older than 23. She must not wear glasses." Stumm received 13 replies. He picked a slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm reported that he had had a fine time. The girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Love Wanted | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...three hours. That evening she pressed his baggy pants, darned his socks and turned the collar on his shirt. A few months later they were married. "I'll never forget that first day in the cafe," she said last week. "I was scared to death that whoever the gentleman was, he would be angry because I had lied. Fortunately, Werner had lied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Love Wanted | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Sordid Patches. In Berlin, where the Red blockade has thrown thousands out of jobs, most of the women advertisers ask for good providers. Sexy innuendos have proved less effective than ads like this: "War widow in her early forties. Delicate constitution, three children, seeks acquaintance with amiable, responsible gentleman. Object: marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Love Wanted | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Born. To Dorothy McGuire, 31, heart-faced cinemactress (Claudia, Gentleman's Agreement), and John Swope, 39, professional photographer and son of onetime General Electric President Gerard Swope: their first child, a daughter, in Ossining, N.Y. Name: Mary Hackett. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...International] is fairly routine gangster melodrama in which the hero (Burt Lancaster) is led into a whole mess of trouble by his alluring ex-wife (Yvonne de Carlo). But it is sharply directed by Robert Siodmak and enlivened with some fresh bits of business. Samples: a jug-nursing old gentleman (Alan Napier) who makes a specialty of planning complex holdups; the robbery of an armored car (in which Lancaster is a guard), a rare sport among real-life or cinema crooks; so much double-crossing that the cast almost needs military maps to remind them who is on whose side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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