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Word: suites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Children," said the prisoner in sneering condescension to the news photographers who had gathered to see her leave the Landsberg Prison gates, "you must be very poor to be making a living taking my picture." Fat, fortyish and seamy-faced, but pertly dressed in a smart green suit and loud beret, depraved Use Koch, wife of Buchenwald's commandant and renowned as a lampshade collector (human skins preferred), then proceeded to pose for the cameras while 40 black-uniformed guards watched in apathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Change of Venue | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...shrill tootle of otomobiller dodging rickety, horse-drawn carts and blind beggars. Smoke-blackened industrial towers, dubbed "Ataturk's minarets," jut skyward between the graceful spires of the Ottomans. The muezzin still calls the faithful to prayer, but in place of flowing robes, he wears a Western business suit. Near the waterfront, hollow-eyed children stare from the windows of tottering wooden tenements. In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee concoction of vodka and orange juice, called a "screwdriver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Wild West of the Middle East | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Hollywood, where actresses traditionally shun fleshy publicity poses once they become stars, pressagents gingerly asked 42-year-old Barbara Stanwyck to get into a bathing suit for some photographs. Barbara beamed: "I've been perfectly willing to pose for cheesecake art, but nobody ever asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Brooklyn, a taxpayer's suit had asked that Oliver Twist and The Merchant of Venice be banned from New York City public schools on the ground that Fagin and Shylock were "antiSemitic and anti-religious." Last week, State Supreme Court Justice Anthony J. DiGiovanna said no. He held that the test was whether either book had been "maliciously written" to rouse prejudice, ruled both Dickens and Shakespeare in the clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In the Clear | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...suing baseball for $300,000-and challenging the whole system of "reserve clause" contracts which can bind a ballplayer to one club for his entire career (TIME, Feb. 21). Fortnight ago, while the World Series was going full blast, organized baseball quietly talked Danny into dropping his suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: I'm So Happy | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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