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Word: morgans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend {20th Century-Fox} is a wild-eyed jamboree starring Betty Grable and co-starring the explosive, uneven talents of Writer-Director-Producer Preston Sturges (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek). The show is a running battle between sex and slapstick, which to most right-minded Grable fans will seem an impertinent piece of lese majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1949 | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...best part of the issue is the poetry. The Garrison Prize poems, "England, 1935," by L. E. Sissman, and William Morgan's "Two Hymn Tunes," are sonorous works. Sissman's piece shows the author's ear for sound ("Battersea's four gaunt towers in their dreams fumed") and atmosphere, but Morgan's poem, especially his second "Tune" shows the greater sensitivity. John C. Fiske makes the standard reply to William Carlos Williams in his "Lines" to that poet ("Let us not call traditional forms a crime/Lest innovation be the thief of rime") but his poetic rebuttal is too contrived...

Author: By Albert J. Feldman, | Title: On the Shelf | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

...blow to the Labor Party. Coming on top of the rebellion in Labor's London fortress last month, they furnished impressive evidence that the Tories had found their feet, that the Socialists faced the battle of their lives in the general elections next year. Said Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips in sour understatement: "Let us face the facts. [The] results are disappointing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wakie, Wakie! | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. By Michele Morgan (real name: Simone Roussel), 29, green-eyed French cinemactress (Port of Shadows, Symphonic Pastorale): William Marshall, 31, cinema director, after six years of marriage, one child; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...plausible (but not very hefty) hurling without calling in a double. Except for a bit of sly mugging in the early scenes, Stewart turns in a solid, heart-warming performance with some attractive short-stopping by June Allyson as Mrs. Monty. He also gets solid support from Veterans Frank Morgan and Agnes Moorehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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