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Word: lovelies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Woodland, Frankie Waldron fell in love. At the end of the session when Willie arrived to reclaim his wife, Frankie and Reggie had to tell him that he had arrived too late. Willie disconsolately went back to Los Angeles to immerse himself in party work and later got a divorce. Frankie and the new Mrs. Reggie Waldron returned from Woodland to set up Communist housekeeping in Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...infant was not big. Up to the time Frankie was falling in love in Woodland, the party had never had more than about 10,000 members. But what it "lacked in size, it made up for in lung power. Its piercing Marxist cry-that capitalism was robbing the worker of the wealth which he alone created-burned into the souls of some Americans like a hot skewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Love in Woodland. In South Pasadena, Calif., where he had taken his stepmother and Nora, Frankie Waldron fingered the mementos and closed that preliminary chapter in the career of a revolutionary. He was absorbed in Communist reading matter, furiously wrote Communist tracts. He worked only when his stepmother and Nora were down to the last dime. Salesmen's jobs were "bourgeois," he orated. His stepmother pleaded with him to make something of himself. He told a friend: "Humanity's welfare is far more vital than my desires in life." He worked briefly as a puddler in a steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...ordering pisco Italia, which has a heady, perfumed bouquet, is labeled by fellow drinkers as a little short in the masculine virtues. The heavy, sweet flavor of pisco moscatel (distilled from muscatel wine) is for the unsophisticated drinker. The young blade disappointed in love seeks forgetfulness in eight or ten straight shots of cherry-flavored pisco. The pisco connoisseur drinks the high-powered Moquegua, distilled from the grapes of the dry, sandy soil of southern Peru...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wine of the Country | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Happy Few Physical Cultist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 80, who keeps the public posted on his sustained "Adam Power," took his annual physical for renewal of his airplane pilot's license. Marveled the doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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