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Word: life (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nehru was overwhelmed. "I'm rather overwhelmed," he told the students. "I enjoy seeing so many young, cheerful faces." Then he told his bodyguards to seram and had the time of his life strolling over the campus amid the irrelevant burbling of a Wellesleyite entourage...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...course, appears at his bedside. Her lines are poor--she too has to spend her time telling Jolson to relax--but her performance is enough to make her a leading candidate for the worst actress of the year. Unfortunately she stays around to marry Jolson and manage his life...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

After taking the Yard scene, the MGM cameramen will also shoot some sculls on the river today before moving on to Boston and Cape Cod where the rest of the action is laid. Life Magazine will also be on hand to watch MGM take its pictures of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Film Debut Halted by Clouds, Continues Today | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...story of the movie industry has long tempted U.S. novelists, and a few writers have brought Hollywood to fictional life e.g., F. Scott Fitzgerald in his unfinished elegy to the independent film artist, The Last Tycoon; Budd Schulberg in his acid-etched portrait of a ratty producer, What Makes Sammy Run? But most novelists who write about Hollywood become infected with the faults they set out to pillory: garish sentimentality and tabloid vulgarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Pulp | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...poker-facedly beating a tattoo of 63,000 pecks in 13 steady hours. The time interval that the bird is working is being lengthened, and Dr. Skinner is attempting to learn when this bird will break down, exhibit signs of mental fatigue, and realize that the gambler's life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mem Hall Gambling Den Is for the Birds | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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