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Word: headful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball game"), Private Lives ("I said to Noel before he saw it, 'anything you don't like we'll take out' "), her home ("I get as much kick out of this house as I did out of dancing, gambling and standing on my head"), herself ("I'm not saying I'm Elsie Dinsmore, dahling, but . . ."), her actions ("I never think out anything, dahling; I do it instinctively or not at all. I do things I'd loathe in anybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...guidance while painting the cover portrait of Tallulah). "You don't mind the bird, do you?" Tallulah inquired, and Sharland, smiling wanly, said, "Of course not." Gaylord took an immediate fancy to Sharland and spent most of the 45-minute session perched on top of her head. Things were complicated further by the presence of Tallulah's Pekingese and a Hungarian sheep dog, who tore around the room, got tangled in Sharland's lighting extensions and occasionally chased each other between her legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...though his life depended on it. He was stopped close to the border by a tired old dog who asked what all the excitement was about. "Haven't you heard?" panted the rabbit. "The Kremlin has decided to emasculate every elephant in Russia." The dog shook his head in mystery. "But I still don't understand," he said. "Why on earth should that worry you? They said nothing about rabbits, did they?" "Fool!" hissed the rabbit. "You don't know those people in the Kremlin. They'll emasculate me first-and then make me prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...work. When he had military visitors, he donned his plain, unmedaled khaki uniform; otherwise he wore a dark blue mandarin gown with a black jacket. To save coal, the grate in his study was left unlit most days, and the Gimo wore a skullcap to keep his head warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: You Shall Never Yield... | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Amory Houghton, '50, head of the Student Council's Class Affairs Committee, said last night that petitions for nomination to the Junior Class Committee must be submitted at Eliot K-43 by Monday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smoker Nominations Open for Class of '52 | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

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