Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seized. This was not the way Americans usually liked to behave. They liked to be on a friendly basis with everyone, and if there were any differences, have things out and get it over with. But the U.S. was going to have to be unneighborly for a good many years to come. It was a policy which called for wariness, skill and a capacity to meet Russia's sustained meanness. For this assignment Acheson could be just...
Black-haired, dark-browed Gerard Graham Dennis seemed to have been born to live brazenly. He had a grenadier's imperious good looks, and a gentleman's taste in clothes. He liked champagne, dance music, danger and girls, especially brunettes with high cheek bones. He was endowed with intelligence and a barefaced talent for lying. He had no scruples against shooting a man, aborting a girl, or whacking an old lady over the head with a pistol butt...
Early last year, while dancing at the Los Angeles Palladium, he found a new girl, a dark-haired, 24-year-old ex-Toronto schoolteacher named Betty Ritchie. Little Betty Ritchie succumbed to his line and his dark good looks, moved into his apartment. To Betty, the life they led was idyllic; Dennis insisted that she keep her $40-a-week job, but he gave her a wedding ring and an old mink coat...
...Good-looking, lively 26-year-old widow with cozy apartment. Seeks lonely younger man to occupy evenings...
...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...