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Word: helpful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, Cambridge's own form of United Nations--the Window Shop--will celebrate its tenth anniversary. At the site of Longfellow's Village Blacksmithe Shop displaced persons now make and sell everything from hand molded crockery to Viennese pastry. Customer's purchases help the employees and the Shop's assistance fund, which supplies money for scholarships to college students...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Circling the Square Window Shop | 3/15/1949 | See Source »

...Director John Farrow leads up to it with a series of small shocks, and neat twists. He appears to have the exhilarating conviction that man-meets-devil can be as interesting as boy-meets-girl. The fine sardonic dialogue of Jonathan Latimer's screen play is a great help, and so are devilish good performances by Milland and Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...most talented writers lately out of school, but his future would look wider if he could break away from the overripe magnolia and do more work on bread & meat material. His publishers, who have been selecting rather tender jacket photographs with which to publicize him, could help, too, by respecting his youth instead of exploiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Light | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...saucy and beautiful Irish actress. That done and over, he sedately married an Austrian dancer and lived as a respectable bourgeois. He did not mix well with his fellow actors, and was wretchedly sensitive to their gibes about his vanity. Garrick was indeed terribly vain-how could he help it? He had been praised enough to turn a man clear out of his mind. "More pains have been taken to spoil the fellow," said Sam Johnson, "than if he had been heir-apparent to the Emperor of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lively Davy | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...seventh score was the one which broke the Elis hearts. As Kittredge and a Yale defenseman were engaging in an unofficial wrestling match in front of the goal, second string Yale goalie Nordy Knox came out to help his side. With the nets left unguarded, DiBlasio swept in and scored easily...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Six Tops Yale, 8-3, Will Tackle Indians Tonight | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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