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Word: loosed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (book by Joseph Fields & Anita Loos; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Leo Robin) lets the famous Lorelei Lee of the '20s gold-dig once more-this time to music. The blonde is played by Carol Channing, who last season rocketed from nowhere to minor fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Novelist-Playwright Anita Loos was making the most of a good thing. Having cleaned up over $1,500,000 on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a magazine sketch (1924), a first novel (1925), a play (1926) and a movie (1928), she had collaborated with Playwright Joseph Fields to turn it into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

One reason for his balance, and the imagination that helps his work so much, may be that he has never been completely immersed in astronomy, which can easily become an obsession. In summer he goes on long fishing trips, as far away as the Colorado Rockies. He belongs to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Died. Francis Welch ("Frank") Crowninshield, 75, longtime editor of the late, famed Vanity Fair, pioneer U.S. collector of modern French art, elegant bon vivant of the old school; after an operation; in Manhattan. Frank Crowninshield made Vanity Fair a gourmet's selection of new, high-flavored literary and artistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

The average U.S. man is 5 ft. 9 in. tall and weighs 158 Ibs. Pace Anita Loos, six out of ten prefer brunettes (a happy choice, since only 8% of U.S. women are natural blondes) and they think- although they are at least half responsible for it-that women get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meet the Folks | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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