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...first time Robert Coombes was accused of attacking a little girl, his mother believed he was innocent. After all, he was only 14. He was a little sullen, but a nice-looking boy with his dark curly hair. That was three years ago. The second time, when he attacked a seven-year-old girl in a cinder-strewn lot near his home in Maiden, Mass., his mother knew better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mother Knew Best | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Nightclub patrons are often sullen and quarrelsome. Overtime workers frequently have peevish dispositions. Can this bad temper be traced to lack of sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Try to Get Some Sleep | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

California (Paramount) is a big, energetic Technicolored western about the 1848 gold rush. It should cause no particular pain to anyone, except possibly historians. Ray Milland is the sullen, unshaven hero. Barbara Stanwyck the hussy-with-heart-of-gold, Barry Fitzgerald the lovable old grape-growing philosopher, and George Coulouris the fine, fascist-minded villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Bowery knew better than that. There was a long, sullen silence. Then someone said: "Scram, jerk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Manna from Brooklyn | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Tyrone, the level-headed old work cat, jumped up on his perch and sat there, solid as a rock. Betty and Patsy had been in heat; they were slow and sullen, but they went to their places without arguing. Zebou, the old rogue male, kept roaming, but Zebou always got funny before he went to work. Dolly loafed in the chute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Dick's Bankroll | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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