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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be either) millions of plain men would bless the United Nations Assembly meeting, where that line first appeared. On the Assembly's second day, small crowds gathered in the sun outside the Assembly Building. A woman kept talking wistfully of One World. Said a fat wise-guy with drowsily half-closed eyes: "Lady, with the atom bomb, the only world is the next world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Calculated Conciliation | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

First, take a top, sure-fire star (Van Johnson). Add a pretty girl who can sing (Pat Kirkwood). Throw in a skilled comic (Keenan Wynn) and a couple of "name" orchestras (Guy Lombardo and Xavier Cugat). Never mind the plot. Van Johnson, looking winsome for the better part of two hours, is all the romance his bobby-sox worshipers really want. Wynn can handle the laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...Guy Madison, making his second appearance on the silver screen in "Till the End of Time," makes great use of the same three qualities that have already endeared him to the bobbysox brigade: a great shock of blond hair, a habit of grinning upward from beneath the shock, and his sensible decision not to complicate his art with the unmanly, finer points of acting. Dorothy McGuire, who is east as Pat, Guy's galfriend, although female and fetching, apparently can't get used to the thought of not being Clandia and has trouble groping her misty-eyed way through this...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

...picture deals with the reconversion problems of three Gyrencs (Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum, Bill Williams) who are mustered out of the service after overseas duty with the Corps. All three return to civilian life with considerable handicaps--Williams minus two legs, Mitchum with a silver plate in his skull, and Madison with a mild ease of the situational reaction that used to be called 'combat fatigue' earlier in the war. Williams can't bear donning his painful artificial legs or admitting that his boxing career is over; Mitchum refuses to tell his family about his disability or to seek adequate...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/29/1946 | See Source »

...almost stopped in the section, and Vag caught himself looking at his wristwatch for what must have been the fifth or sixth time. The instructor, unheard, went doggedly on. Vag grimaced and began watching the rest of the room from his back-row seat. He saw with satisfaction the guy directly in front of him--the one who always knew answers--pause in his note-taking to glance at the electric wall clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/26/1946 | See Source »

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