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Word: sprees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vienna of 1900, it concerns the lifelong passion of a pretty girl for a rather stupid young composer, played woodenly by Louis Jourdan. Miss Fontaine gazes lovingly at Jourdan while she is a child, and when she has grown up, runs away from home for a romantic one-night spree with him. He subsequently takes a trip, and after he has left, she finds that she is pregnant. Not wishing to hurt him, she delivers her baby but refuses to divulge the name of the father...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/20/1948 | See Source »

Three years ago, soldiers from the Volga and the Mississippi, the Thames and the Loire met by the Spree, in the ruins of a harsh, unlovely city situated on the vast plain on the edge of Europe's Slav lands. The city was Berlin. The soldiers brought to it both fear and hope. Since then, fear has grown like weeds amid the debris; hope has been carted off like rubble. Last week from Berlin, TIME Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled this report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: On a Sandy Plain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Luretta F. Davis emerged as next year's Senior President at Radcliffe after the results of the two day voting spree in Agassiz House were finally tabulated late last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Voters Elect 18 Officers For Coming Year | 4/14/1948 | See Source »

...Miamians doubted that the great spree was over. That did not mean that grass would grow in the streets in front of the Roney Plaza. As one horseplayer put it: "From now on it'll be lox and bagel* but without the cream cheese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: No More Cream Cheese | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Atlanta, four teen-agers went on a spree, released the brakes of some 24 cars just to watch them careen downhill and crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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