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Word: sailor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sailor's Delight. In Seattle, a sailor was fished out of the harbor by shore patrolmen; a woman passerby had started to rescue him but let him slip back into the water when she saw that he had no pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 1, 1945 | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...Most sailor-on-a-furlough films re just so much bosh and lush thrown together haphazardly but hopefully. However, "Anchors Aweigh" depends on carefully sketched characters and novel variations to achieve its effects. Kelly plays a "sea-wolf" who saves his bashful buddy Clarence-(Sinatra) from drowning and then goes on to act as nurse-maid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

...Homecoming. To emphasize this civilian-serviceman barrier of unshared experience, Author Jonas jumps intermittently from the Aleutian action to the miserable frustration of a returned sailor amid civilians who cannot understand what he has no words to tell them. In the downtown businessmen's club the sailor could only play nervously with the silverware when the man said: "Well, how are the boys going to vote?" When the girl spoke out of the darkness: "Don't I mean anything to you at all?" he could only say suddenly, "No, I guess you don't." And when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Beyond | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...done dairy work," said the sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Wanted: Glamor Jobs | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Well, that sounds pretty good," the sailor said, and took the card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Wanted: Glamor Jobs | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

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