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Word: julep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thus gets over an eight-year-old case of amnesia, reverts to his former character of con man cum laude. He still pretends to be Larry Wilson for the sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance of cinema's No. 1 man-&-wife team results in split-second timing of some of the sauciest dialogue since the Hays office eased the ban on innuendo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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