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Word: overing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The terrible consequences of this mistake are illustrated by Laraine Day, who flings herself into marriage with a comparative stranger. After only a few months, Laraine discovers that Ryan was once a C.P. strong-arm boy. But it is already too late: she is one of the few characters left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

Actually, Fields was just doing what came naturally. He was eternally suspicious, intensely competitive and even at the peak of his career morbidly fearful of poverty. To avoid sudden bankruptcy, he developed the habit of starting small bank accounts all over the U.S.; at one time he had 700 of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Made Curmudgeon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

He became the idol of a cult, presided over by Authors Alva Johnston and Gene Fowler (who turned over all his notes to Biographer Taylor). An ex-newspaperman and author of some of The New Yorker's smoothest profiles on amiable eccentrics, Taylor strings out the Fields anecdotes (first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Made Curmudgeon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

"I feel a little ashamed to carry on like this. Something just came over me. I will be myself again tomorrow."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Bashful Boy | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

The present deadlock in the Committee came Saturday when a previously-adopted agreement over fixed parity was scrapped. This had appeared at first to be a House victory, but now there is some question as to which side will come out on top. The aim of a parity program is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parity Puzzle | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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