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Word: janet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Janet Logan, a sad, sensitive young woman who has been intellectually babied until her 23 years have been reduced to adolescence, and who, at the time the story opens, is recovering after a stay in a mental hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Promise | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

Answer. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Janet A. Michel complained that her husband forbade her to listen to radio quizzes be cause "he said he knew all the answers and I didn't need to know them," won a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Here is one you may have missed. Rosiland Russell and Janet Blair (My Sister Eileen) in a daffy sort of comedy about two wet-behind-the-ears midwestern girls who hit the Big Town--and in turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

Counterattack (adapted from the Russian of Ilya Vershinin and Mikhail Ruderman by Janet and Philip Stevenson; produced by Lee Sabinson) is a play about Russians and Nazis that could just as well be about cops & robbers. For three acts a Russian corporal and private stand guard -in a claustrophobic cellar whose entrance caves in-over seven disarmed but wily Nazis and a German nurse. Because they cannot find out which Nazi is the officer they have been ordered to bring back alive, the Russians must hold their rebellious, scheming prisoners rather than shoot them down. Since one Russian gets wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...William, 63, punch-pleased with the way things were going, broke off his lectures explaining the plan long enough to marry his former secretary, Mrs. Jessy ("Janet") Philip Mair, grandmother and economist in her own right. The marriage, performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury at Caxton Hall, was Sir William's first. Chirped he: "Though I have known the lady . . . for many years, yet marriage must always be an adventure. Yet my critics say that social security kills that spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Plan and the Spirit | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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