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Word: granded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nick Beal is a guy who'll double-deal you for a nickel or fifty grand, just so long as it's good and dirty. This time his target is Joseph Foster (Thomas Mitchell), a pious D.A. who is running for Governor. Beal engineers all sorts of deals to get Foster elected, but ruins his reputation as well. And of course Foster has signed away his soul (in writing, very legal), and only saves himself at the last moment by brandishing a Bible in front of Beal's flendish face...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...association is presenting an original musical comedy production, "Mind the Music," while the Yale Glee Club gives its annual prom concert Friday night. On Saturday the Yale fraternities will have closed dances in their chapter houses. A series of athletic contests is also scheduled for the weekend. (From the Grand Rapids "Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

...applicant at the Chance Vought Aircraft plant at Grand Prairie, Tex. filled in his name on a company form, "Jones, Rufus." The next line read, "alias or otherwise known as." Jones wrote, "Shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Anna Louise Strong, 63, back in Manhattan after getting kicked out of her beloved Moscow, collapsed from "complete physical and nervous exhaustion," had to postpone her scheduled appearance before a federal grand jury investigating espionage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Air Is Filled with Music | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Test Case. In Green Bay, Wis., Municipal Judge Donald W. Gleason asked a man charged with grand larceny whether he wanted a lawyer, got a straight answer: "I don't know, Judge. This is the first time I ever got caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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