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Word: goings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that raids psychopathology for its thrills. What its door is closing on, with what threatens to be a deafening bang, is the sanity of the hero. Sullen, suspicious, harrowed by dark memories, Vail Trahern (Alexander Knox) can still, after a quieting talk with his wife (Doris Nolan), agree to go to a sanitarium for treatment. Then, thrown off balance again, he runs off, has somebody else turn up at the sanitarium in his name, and steals back home to precipitate a ghastly mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...think that anyone will ever again build huge hotels like those he gobbled up in the last few years. Nor does he expect to buy any more big ones, at least not right away. With the air of a tired conqueror he asks: "After all, where can you go from the Waldorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...same. Just as obvious and just as funny as White Collar, Home Sweet Zoo has an even larger potential audience: the husbands and wives of the nation who have been stuck by the thorns of domestic irritation. Confident Author Barnes, who blandly assumes that White Collar will go over 500,000, thinks that Home ought to do just as well. Hopeful, but aware that the hottest fads have a saturation point, Publishers Doubleday have ordered a mere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beast In Us | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...drawings which go on exhibition today plus 70 others from private and public collections throughout the country make up the illustrations of Miss Mongan's book. The impetus for the book came from the enthusiastic response of art connoisseurs, critics, and collectors to last year's show of great drawings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg Starts New Show of Drawings | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

People who live on the first floor consistently complain that men dressed in painters uniforms are watching them. When they look around, the "painters" glance quickly away, but the victims are sure that as soon as they go about their business, the "painters" start watching again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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