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Word: guesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hmmmmmm, I guess I liked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/23/1947 | See Source »

Disappearing Zanzibari. It was a close guess. The trek look a year and a half, much of it through an unexplored forest which rose "like a dark, dense colonnade." Pigmies assailed them and, according to Stanley's story, more than one Zanzibari "disappeared into the cooking pot." He also described butterflies flying overhead in clouds, "some taking hours to pass"; beetles boring into the tent poles and showering sawdust into the soup. Natives shot poisoned arrows at the passing column, "baboons howled within the darkness . . . and . . . herds of hippopotami grunted thunderously" along the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: He Got His Man | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...must yield in its hostility toward unions." At the same time, he denounced the British general strike of 1926 as a breach of inviolable contract. In friendly tones, he asked the automobile industry to hold still and let itself be organized. The answer came from Henry Ford: "I guess I can run my business without Bill Green's help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Man from Hardscrabble Hill | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...Rolf Berndt on a Berlin street corner. Gitte was then a police clerk and Rolf a trusty from Sachsenhausen internment camp. "He looked so humiliated in his prison uniform," she explained, "that I said a nice word. He looked so beautiful when he answered, I guess I fell in love right there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: From Gitte, with Love | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...takes up with a nasty friend of her supposedly dead husband. But of course, just as she is about to marry the friend, (after four reels of indecision), the husband shows up and the two men have the customary brawl on the customary cliff-top. You have but one guess who it is that falls into the briny deep. And that, in toto, is all there is to it. Just to make things a bit easier for the duller cinema-goer a convenient cue to the action has been supplied whenever anything important is about to happen the weather always...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/7/1947 | See Source »

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