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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young actor named Robert Lieb who gets no program credit. Thereafter the Norths and their friends are suspected, and an elderly postman who learns something about the crime is whacked to death in the kitchen. Mrs. North is chirpy, lightheaded, dizzily bent on helping the police. Once, when she isn't deliberately trying to, she actually does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan, Jan. 27, 1941 | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Another nephew (Allyn Joslyn) is an innocent dramatic critic engaged in a fine, sane courtship with the minister's daughter who lives next door. When she runs home for family prayers before going to the theatre with him, he reminds her that "if the prayer isn't too long I'd have time to lead you beside distilled waters." But that same evening he discovers the evidence of his aunts' latest charity in the window seat, awaiting burial. And that evening also marks the dreadful homecoming of a third nephew, an international killer, bringing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 20, 1941 | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...fight" in Congress, Isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, who thinks Britain can't win but is willing to give her everything she can pay for, said: "If it's our war, we ought to have the courage to go over and fight it-but it isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Soundings | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...lady friend who married the other fellow," he explained. "There's two gold coins that F. D. R. isn't going to get." Money, a mysterious thing to most folks, has no secrets from Prospector Gimlett. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Paper Money | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

These strange, scattered, seemingly irrelevant bombings might have been the work of Nazis off their course, unloading to save fuel. But Dublin isn't blacked out as Britain is. Its thousands of street lights are easily seen from the air. How account for the Dublin bombing when bombers could have flown a few minutes less and unloaded in the Irish Sea? How account for the daylight bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Nazi Corrigans? | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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