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Word: ridiculouse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Fall River, Mass., Police Chief Edward D. McMahon thumbed through his copy of LIFE'S tenth anniversary issue and lingered over its eight color pages of U.S. art. There were 25 paintings including four of nudes and all had appeared in the magazine before. Chief McMahon went to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: LIFE in Fall River | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

But in his Ottawa home Babinski only said blandly: "It is ridiculous. I knew of no password. Fiderkiewicz, you know, is a Communist."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Affair of the Absconded Art | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

In the modern, stylishly bohemian society in which it is set, this naughty old story (from Louis Verneuil's moth-eaten play, Jealousy, recently revived on Broadway as Obsession) seems doubly ridiculous. It is impossible to believe that 1) Bette would try to conceal her past, or 2) Henreid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 4, 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Brotherly Love. Gerhart Eisler is a chunky, bright-eyed, 49-year-old German who has been in the U.S. for five years. Last week he and his slender, 35-year-old wife, Brunhilda, were packed and read)' to sail to Germany. Then the State Department suddenly took back its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Brain | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Angel on My Shoulder presents Paul Muni as a murdered gangster and Claude Rains as the Devil. Aiming at satire with a touch of uplift, the picture succeeds in being vaguely grisly and definitely foolish. Actor Muni's natural dignity, which prevents him from appearing ridiculous in embarrassing surroundings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 14, 1946 | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

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