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Word: sweete (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweet Sixteen." The delegates were rewarded with a fleeting glimpse of Wallace, who appeared briefly at Convention Hall, then was rushed back to his hotel. The climax came the next night at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics. Some 30,000 people, who paid 65? to $2.60 for seats, all but filled the vast, covered stands. Banks of blinding floodlights beat down on the speakers' platform erected near second base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: The Pink Pomade | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...stand for his acceptance speech to assail the Marshall Plan, assail racism, assail Wall Street and U.S. military leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: The Pink Pomade | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Actress Peggy Wood, longtime top-ranking sweet young thing, now playing mother roles: "Every age has its particular compensations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Coming & Going | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...stunt pilot of painting, Picasso, now 66, has made some of the fastest, furthest flights, most resounding forced landings and crashes in art history. He can also, as the new Verve demonstrates, make short, slow, sweet canoe trips when he chooses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Springtime for Pablo | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...sweet-natured, spirited, unaffected girl, and unquestionably a talented one; she also has the makings of a big, popular movie star. She already gets 2,000 fan letters a week. Among them there have already been twelve proposals of marriage, and a proposition from an Indian chiropodist which is the ultimate sort of accolade a movie star must get used to. Would Miss Simmons be so kind, the Indian fan asked, as to send him a photograph of her feet, and a sliver of toenail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivier's Hamlet | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

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