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Word: gumbo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rain turned Tanforan's racing strip into thick, black gumbo. But it takes more than gumbo to stop Citation, a wonder horse in all weathers. Last week, in his first West Coast race, Citation sloshed effortlessly down the stretch to win his tune-up for next week's $50,000 Tanforan Handicap. His time was 1:12, one second off the six furlong track record. Explained Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "I didn't want to hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Race That Wasn't | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...such publicity stunts as advertising for an ugly vocalist ("preferably with two heads. Neither must be attractive"). Through it all, Red has been miserable. Now things are going so well, he doubts if he'll ever get out of the band business. Says he: "It's like gumbo in the spring. You just can't shake it off your shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gumbo | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Mary of Scotland," another Hepburn revival, shares the bill. Except for a superb scene of the murder of her faithful servant, played nicely by John Carradine, this historical gumbo is leaden and deadly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bringing Up Baby | 9/29/1948 | See Source »

...Kuesters are patiently waiting for supplies to repaint the house and to put in a bathroom.) A mile away the world goes by on busy Highway U.S. 71 (Canadian border to Baton Rouge). That mile is a dirt road which spring thaws or rains soften to a greasy gumbo navigable only by Dale Kuester's "mud-whoopee," a 1929 Ford roadster that he has cut down into a pick-up truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Man against Hunger | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Louisiana bayou country; after long illness; in New Orleans. From oft-told tales about the quadroons and mulattoes who inhabited the shifting Mississippi delta, he wove novels of romance and violence (Children of Strangers, Lafitte, the Pirate] and neo-Gothic horror stories of New Orleans-below-the-belt (Gumbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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