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Word: killers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...society's Patricia Anne ("Honey-chile") Wilder phoned home in a panic to make sure a borrowed $65,000 necklace was still safe on her dressing table. "Yes'm," said her maid, "and it looks 'most real. I was a killer las' night when I wore it up in Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hollywood | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Although this thesis produces a lot of talk in Major Barbara, it is the kind of talk that cinemaddicts seldom hear-brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker's dozen of superb acting performances. As the author's chief protagonist, lucent Wendy Killer (Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle) is the Salvation Army major who believes that the pure in heart will inherit the earth, only to learn that the rich already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1941 | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...third successive undefeated season soared high Saturday as the Crimson rugged ruggers smashed to a 38 to 0 victory over the Cornell fifteen on Soldiers Field. The high score was more encouraging in view of the fact that the Rugby Club was one man short after Tom Killer dislocated his shoulder in the early moments of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUGGERS STOP CORNELL 38-0 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...improving by leaps and bounds. There are few white tenor men who can come near him these days (COLUMBIA) . . . Reissue of the week is Ride Red Ride by the old Mills Blue Rhythm band, which includes Red Allen, Buster Bailey, and J. C. Higginbotham. For a real "killer" tune, you can't go wrong on this. It's played at a breakneck pace, and is a fight to the finish, although it's hard to say who wins (OKEH) . . . Fats Waller turns out more insane novelty on "All That Meat and No Potatoes and Buckin' the Dice, latter including tenor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 4/12/1941 | See Source »

...hubbub at Union Station Carson and his kidnapping "cleanup squad" spirited Mrs. Durkin off the train, through labyrinthine passages to a waiting taxi, to the Herex building. Police discovered her whereabouts as extras began to roll with her by-line story of life with the notorious automobile thief and killer. When, at dawn, her story was told, Carson calmly turned her over to the police battalions that clamored outside the Herald & Examiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Muscle Journalist | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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