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Word: manly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...master of ceremonies as well as fiddle at Harlem's Regent Theater, the vaudeville union socked him $50 for a card. Fiddler Norman also paid, but Petrillo called out the orchestra and closed the act. Said Petrillo: "I am being mercenary . . . We are going to get back that man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Render unto Caesar... | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Hanover, Pa., Hanover Craftsmen, Inc. announced a special chair for televiewers. Modeled after an old English cockfight chair, it is built so that a man can straddle it, rest his elbows on the back and put his drink (or dark glasses) on a built-in dropleaf tray. Women can sidesaddle. Price: $95 and up, depending on the upholstery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: At the Cockfight | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...another Times ad, Callahan asked plaintively: "What's the matter with Montana? . . . Don't they like flats in Montana? . . . Aren't legs a national tradition? Montana, Montana, please write." Wrote one embittered Missoula man: "I don't think our women need these flats. Their feet are flat enough . . . Most of them go barefooted out here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Yes, We Have No Bonanza | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Married. James Allan Mollison, 44, playboyish British airman, first man to fly the North Atlantic solo from east to west (1932); and Mary Kamphuis, 33, tall blonde director of his cocoa-butter firm; he for the third time (his first wife, Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, was killed in a plane crash in 1941, three years after their divorce), she for the second; in Maidenhead, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...court new experiences and make fresh experiments. Since his proletarian years, Henry Yorke has graduated into big business: he is now managing director, in London, of his old Birmingham firm, H. Pontifex & Sons. In World War II, he worked full time as a fire-fighting "ranker," i.e., enlisted man in the hazardous National Fire Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molten Treasure | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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