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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after 13 months as an efficient State executive who is only somewhat vague about foreign affairs, the G.O.P. Governor last week made an announcement. In the June primaries he will go for the seat of resigning Democrat Guy Gillette, and ask lowans how they would like to hear for six years the thunderous name of U.S. Senator Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hickenlooper | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...tempered Kelly Turner and hot-tempered Holland Smith get along fine -now. Says General Smith: "I like that guy. We fought. We argued like hell. We were nasty to each other. But when we came up from the mat we were friends." Why the Marines? Some theorists claim that marines are good fighters be cause they must always fight, war or peace. More than once Army officers have tried to abolish the Marine Corps -Douglas MacArthur as Chief of Staff had the last notable try. Many a West Pointer will still argue that the picked troops of the Marine Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Old Man of the Atolls | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...this one seemed already aerated--never seen a 'poon with drier ink. An' y' know, I mussa been drunk--becos every goddam thing in the paper seemed to me to have been written by some guy whats already left. Never seen a 'poon with so much correspondence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: See the New 'Poon Just Out? Freshman Benchley's Good | 2/15/1944 | See Source »

...unknown writer named Thomas Hardy submitted his first novel (The Poor Man and the Lady), it drew one of the "gigantic, honest letters" for which Alexander was noted. "Is it conceivable," the publisher protested, "that any man, however base . . . would do as you make the Hon. Guy Allancourt do? Is it within the range of likelihood that any gentleman would pursue his wife at midnight and strike her?" But the publisher was not unaware of Hardy's possibilities: "You see," he concluded, "I am writing to you as to a writer who seems to me of, at least potentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Macmillan's First 100 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...Guy Named Joe (Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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