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Word: jameses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sabath countered with a short left to the jaw, then a short right cross with real steam behind it. New York's 200-lb. James Delaney stepped between them and stopped the battle before the bewildered sergeant at arms could parade the mace, the traditional symbol of law & order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Let Harry Do It | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Rich, booming, and afloat with dull-eyed suckers, it is an irresistible target for shady operators, con men, burglars, jewel thieves and tired Eastern torpedoes-all of whom slip into sport coats and slacks on arrival. Murders are often bizarre. Elizabeth Short, nicknamed the "Black Dahlia," became the most highly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Pink Oasis | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Sharman Douglas, 20, blonde daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, all dressed up to take in a new movie (the world premiere of Christopher Columbus) at London's Odeon theater, stopped for a moment amid popping flashbulbs for a curtsy to Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Between installments of the Dabney saga, Author Street, a onetime Baptist preacher and former newspaperman, wrote a novel of contemporary Mississippi, In My Father's House, and The Gauntlet (TIME, Dec. 24, 1945), which sold 800,000 copies. In the midst of writing Tomorrow We Reap, which carries the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dabneys (Cont'd) | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

The New England in which this slow man got his seasoning was the land of what Henry James called "the classic abandoned farm of the rude forefather who had lost patience with his fate." In 1906, Frost had been farming for six years outside Deny, N.H., and had begun to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Intolerable Touch | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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