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Word: handly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mickey also became something of a leading citizen. He took up gracious living. He acquired an ample wardrobe, changed clothes several times a day, washed his hands several times an hour. The opening of his Sunset Strip haberdashery (pastel shirts and hand-painted ties featured) was graced by George

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Baby Sitter. With cops ratting on each other so fast, it was hard for an honest hood to decide which law to work with. A grand jury went to work. Mickey knew things were out of hand when State Attorney General Fred Howser sent a special agent to be his bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Harold J. Kennedy, who had hired Miss Blondell for a week's stand in Happy Birthday at Princeton, N.J., said Joan used "vile and abusive language" to his cast. Joan admitted that she may have said "gosh" or "darn it." Mr. Kennedy said she threw a $40 silver hand mirror at either him or another member of the cast. Miss Blondell said it was not a mirror, it was a Kleenex and she wished it had been a brick. Princeton Police Chief Edward Mahan said all he knew was that he got this call from the theater and sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hail & Farewell | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...Dedham, Mass., Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy's lawyers told a probate court that the once-plump Woolworth heiress was down to an emaciated 88 Ibs. and desperately needed her son Lance, 13, with her until the end of the summer. Babs's friends in Venice, on the other hand, said that she was well enough to swim at Lido Beach in a sleek black suit. Lance's father, Court Haugwitz-Revent-low (Barbara's second husband), who wants his son back in August, refused to comment. Wise by now in the ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hail & Farewell | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...ring waving a towel. A moment later, the challenger slumped to the canvas and Referee Dempsey stopped the fight. The show would probably not have made an edifying spectacle for Costello's foundation kids, but it proved that Ike Williams still had the lightweight division well in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Charity | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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