Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beaten for the first time, she announced she would shut up shop on Armistice Day. Said she: "I was having a talk with my croaker the other day. He says, 'Florabel, your ticker ain't worth a pot in hell-you take it easy.' So I guess I will...
...caught alive with nets because they live only at ocean-bottom pressures. He also hopes that his camera will clear up an old baffler: why do fish from the presumably dark ocean bottom have well developed eyes, while those at slightly higher levels seem nearly blind? Ewing's guess: there are large amounts of luminescent organisms on the ocean floor...
Bathed in the intrigue of Lisbon, "The Conspirators" lacks nothing in the way of excitement and surprise -- except Humphrey Bogart. Warners' has assembled its best espionage talent in this opus with Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Paul Henreld, and Hedy Lamarr carrying on one big game of Guess...
...Danish patriots prowl, around with strange grins on their faces through exotic restaurants, pawn shops, gambling dens, and little French fishing towns, Hedy, at her lovliest, is the most mysterious character of all. But since Paul Henreld, a loyal Dutchman, falls in love with her, it's easy to guess how the luscious Lamarr ends...
...Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Louis Des-touches) prewar Fascist and one of France's most brilliant novelists, (Journey to the End of the Night), wrote virulent, anti-Semitic articles for the Nazis. He was turned down when he applied for German citizenship, but Parisians guess he is now in Germany...