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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When rapture No. 1 comes along, Maureen O'Hara, an impetuous young woman of the 1880s, defies her respectable family to marry an impoverished painter (Dana Andrews with a beard). Soon after he takes her off to live in a picturesque London slum, Dana turns out to be just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

It was no joke, in early 19th Century England, to be the eldest daughter of a poor Yorkshire vicar. Not even for a girl as lively, as pretty, as independent, as good and as beautiful as Arabella Tallant. Naturally she wanted to marry none of her awkward provincial suitors, so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Painless Regency | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Hearth & Home. In Santa Rosa, Calif., Mrs. Irene Wells explained to authorities why she had allowed her bigamous husband to bring his 15-year-old "bride" into their house: "I didn't think it would last." In Toledo, a housewife tried to explain her motive for clouting her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Long Shot. In Philadelphia, several days, after Bernard Goodis had lost a full ($32) wallet, he got it back empty in the mail, with a note: "I put your money on a horse; if it pays off I will return your $32."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Retreat. In San Diego, William Springer, awaiting trial on a charge of theft, observed that, since he never got lonely in jail, he would like to spend the rest of his life there "with one afternoon off a week for shopping."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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