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Word: manly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After that, for nightmarish minutes, he stalked the street like a murderous mechanical man. He shot at passing motorists, killed three people, wounded two more. He saw a two-year-old boy in a window, aimed, fired, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Quiet One | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...when the telephone rang in the midst of the uproar, he calmly picked up the receiver. The man on the other end of the wire, a fast thinking Camden newspaperman named Philip Buxton, said: "I'm a friend . . . how many have you killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Quiet One | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Mahwah is noted for beautiful trees-elms and tulips. And speaking of trees, one of our former residents cut quite a niche for himself writing about trees. This young man was Joyce Kilmer . . . Mahwah is one of the few places where George Washington DID NOT sleep. As a matter of fact, he used to pass through here at a good rate of speed . . . And finally Mahwah has all modern improvements . . . So we ask you what do Azusa and Cucamonga have that we don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Rising at Mahwah | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Time was when even the use of such 'swear words' devoid of blasphemous intent or meaning had a proper and respected place in our language. Their use was a great art, reaching its noblest . . . among men whose lives were bound to beasts of burden . . . the cavalry man, the artillery man, but most of all the mule skinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Forgotten Art | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...parts acrobatics." The acrobatics began the next day. When the other reporters arrived, the Daily Express men shoved him from one room to another and jammed him into closets to hide him from their rivals. "I need," said proud Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke, "no man's money, but I was glad to have the Express's. Now I have one of their reporters here as my guest. He will stay as long as he wants. There is nothing like a sudden descent from a balloon to warm up international understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Flight by Moonlight | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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