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Word: ll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of guards from P.B.H. will block gate crashing; music will be by courtesy of the Annex P.A. system; and you can tell a hostess from a freshman because she'll be wearing a nameplate with a Radcliffe seal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe, Harvard '52 Will Meet at Dance | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...Boys yesterday, twenty today; I'll have thirty tomorrow and a hundred on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamar Examines Early Arrivals for '52 Football Team | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...with The Chief to do a column about what she knows best-celebrities. It started last week (without a byline for the first few days) in the Los Angeles Herald & Express, and is ghostwritten by bespectacled Charles Gentry, onetime drama critic for Hearst's Detroit Times. "I'll write about, famous people, both inside and outside the U.S.," Cobina told a reporter. "After all, my dear, I've known just about everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: These Charming People | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Last week, introducing his friend to Star readers, Broadway Pressagent Richard Maney wrote: "Lardner will introduce at least one revolutionary note into dramatic criticism. He'll back his opinions with cash. Do you think that Boston has more people than Baltimore . . . that Bill Terry never hit .400? If you do it will cost you money to talk to Lardner. It's neither ballast nor diaries which bulge his jerkin. They're loose-leaf ledgers tabulating his daily speculations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ring's Boy | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...constellations, "don't go too deep into Africa. Don't try to grasp her. Don't try to penetrate her. Don't get sucked into the whirlpool. The deeper you go, the more poisonous she grows. Take my word for it. You'll end by going mad . . ." Storm and Echo will give many readers the same wrung-out feeling they'd get from seeing a dozen performances of White Cargo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Africa! Africa! Good God! | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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