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Word: pretends (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Desire Me (MGM) is a rather peremptory title that is taken pretty seriously by Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum and Richard Hart, all of whom pretend, with varying degrees of success, to be French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...Beautiful & the Damned. It was a battle between two very different kinds of socialists. Just to mix things up even more, it also involved Tories who do not know (or admit) that they are socialists, a lot of people who merely pretend to be socialists, and a staggering number of Britons who imagine that British socialism is divinely different from all other socialism. But for Americans, it is a fair simplification to say that the battle is between good socialists and bad socialists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Issue | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...might have to wait til classes start on Wednesday. But you can't borrow lectures notes the first day ... Maybe I should get lost???? Would he know his way around, through? Maybe I could meet an upperclassman that way. Or I could pretend he looks like Rufus McCoy who rescued me from drowning when...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: Stadium Viewed As Grim Nexus in Local Manhunt | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...might have to wait til classes start on Wednesday. But you can't borrow lecture notes the first day . . . Maybe I should get lost ???? Would he know his way around, though? Maybe I could meet an upperclassman that way. Or I could pretend he looks like Rufus McCoy who rescued me from drowning when...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: Stadium Viewed AsGrim Nexus of Local Manhunt | 9/18/1947 | See Source »

...Legion would be modified to reflect the views of its junior partners, who were considered somewhat less hidebound than the old guard. But so far the hierarchy has held firm. The opinions it expresses, and which are given close attention in Congress, are not and do not pretend to be those of a majority of veterans or even Legionnaires. Rather policies are formulated at the top and passed down to the membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Ring Out the Old"? | 8/28/1947 | See Source »

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