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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a mistake. He met a dark-haired girl named Gloria Horowitz in a Manhattan nightclub; he took her to Philadelphia, gave her some diamonds, told her to sell them for him in a jewelry store. A suspicious clerk called the cops. Dennis, waiting outside the store, saw her being arrested. He calmly walked away, but when Gloria finished talking, the police for the first time had a line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Good Life | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Other performers during the evening included: Eric Victor, a dancer from the cast of "Inside U.S.A.," the Dunster Dunces and the Krockodiloes, both collegiate singing outfits; Ellis Traub '52, who played a musical saw; Hugh Shepley '51, a juggler; the Four Flats, a freshman barbershop quarter; and Marie McDonnell, New England Tributary Theater singer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1952 Packs Memorial Hall For Boisterous Smoke Celebration | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

...lived in Australia, the Rev. Colin Craven-Sands thought highly of British fox hunting. "I had seen pictures of hunting scenes," he remembers, "and I liked the pretty dress worn by hunting folk." Shortly after taking up his duties in a small Cornwall parish, Mr. Craven-Sands one day saw the local Four Burrow Hunt bring a fox to ground. What he thought he saw and heard changed his mind about fox hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: For the Kill | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...aunt had when I was a child, and that I always used to hit it, whirl it around. I wondered for a long time what I should put on the wall in the background. First I was going to make it a bandage ad, but then one day I saw it had to be the woman you see there, and I knew at once the whole story-which I do not want to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painted Stones | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...last week an old friend dropped into the office of handsome, courtly Samuel Hay Kauffmann to congratulate him. At 50, Kauffmann had been elected president of the Washington Evening Star-the capital's oldest, richest and most conservative newspaper. Said the friend: "I remember the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the tailgate of a Star truck." Sam Kauffmann, grandson and namesake of the Star's first president, had started at the bottom 28 years ago to learn the business side of the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shining Star | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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