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Word: tattoo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reformation. In Honolulu, Tattoo Artist Urbano Manipon got a jail sentence for sketching a naked girl on a minor's arm, got the sentence suspended when he added a hula skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...supporting this major bit of tradition, the undergraduates, aided and abetted by the CRIMSON, beat the inevitable tattoo on the hapless skull of the H.A.A. The subject? Ticket distribution, of course. From the first game, when it was claimed that non-University personnel sat in cheering section seats, to the last, when inept distribution of tickets was alleged, the Athletic Association was on the receiving end of a steady drum-fire of adverse publicity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports, Tradition Played Major Role in '22 As Post-War College Returned to 'Normal" | 6/4/1947 | See Source »

...pretty ranch house with his good wife (Lillian Gish), one good son (Joseph Gotten) and one very bad son (Gregory Peck). When the railroad (civilization) tries to encroach on Barrymore's rangeland, all hell breaks loose in the form of rip-roaring gunplay, overheated histrionics, and the tattoo of hoofbeats across gorgeously tinted landscapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 17, 1947 | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...slickest of U.S. slick magazines was born-along with baseball, Buffalo Bill, the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York's first tattoo parlor and Carry Nation-100 years ago. This week, to show how gracefully it had grown old, it unveiled a centenary self-portrait that managed to appear both candid and flattering. The 348-page Christmas annual that came from the presses of swank, sophisticated Town & Country was the heaviest (2 Ibs. 11½ oz.) issue in its history. It was also the richest, with around $250,000 worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dickens, Dali & Others | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Rifle butts hammered a midnight tattoo on hundreds of doors. Into the cold, dark streets poured nearly a thousand Jews, many of them in thin nightdress. For more than an hour they shivered in the crisp air while soldiers ransacked their homes, threatened with clubbed rifles any who protested. Ten foreign correspondents were whisked from the scene to the headquarters of a ruddy-faced, blond-mustached lieutenant colonel, who told them their presence was "embarrassing" to his men. The colonel called the Jews "'a despicable race," said (according to one report): "You know our boys sometimes use the butts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: To Reform the Jews | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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