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Word: putting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deweymen forces were completely routed. In a radio interview, retiring Chairman Scott admitted: "I certainly don't think that Mr. Dewey ought to run in 1952." New York's Committeeman J. Russel Sprague, who ran the Dewey floorshow in Philadelphia, put it more bluntly: "We New Yorkers . . . won't have a candidate in 1952. We'll just sit back and get some of the loving for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Change of Command | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...what it would mean to your husband* if he could see you at home in a clean hostess gown of multi-flower print, your cheeks and hands smelling fresh? . . . And, I implore you, don't stand at the hot stove in the same dress you come home in. Put an apron around your waist, one of those plastic aprons with ruffles. They don't have to be washed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Private Lives | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

Rude Pravo also deplored marriage bureaus, "used on the one hand, by doctors, directors or rich pensioners (factory owners have lost their attraction) and on the other hand by women with suitable dowries or widows with furniture." These bureaus were still legal, but, as Rude Pravo put it, "we can't correct everything at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Private Loves | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Police put Pramote back in jail for safekeeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: The Angry Dwarf | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...Rock Park, Colo., Met Tenor Lauritz Melchior got full-dress honors from 250 nudists in convention nearby. To hear him sing, they put their clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Off the Chest | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

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