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Word: tireder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Queen Wilhelmina was tired. For 49 years, ever since she was a girl of 18 (whom Playwright Edmond Rostand once described as "the little lily queen who rules over the kingdom of tulips"), she had worn the crown-or the somewhat knockabout hats which she preferred.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Long Live the Queen! | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Two hours after the beginning of "An Inspector Calls," just as two balconies, an orchestra, and several boxes full of tired and tortured audience are about to give up the ghost, Melville Cooper puts down the telephone and recites a quiet curtain line that makes this J. B. Priestley opus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

Harlow had good news in the afternoon's drill, for the A squad performed smoothly despite continuing bruises from the B.U., encounter. "The team looked better than I expected," said Harlow. "They're still very tired--stiff and sore--but we ought to be able to get back to full...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Two Starters Hurt, Cannot Face Virginia | 10/8/1947 | See Source »

In the dining room of Mexico City's unfinished Prado Hotel stood Muralist Diego Rivera, critically studying a wall. President Alemán himself had ordered that the city's toniest hotel be completed in time for November's UNESCO conference, and all around Rivera's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sunday in the Park | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

* One of whom once told his staff: "The boss says he's getting tired of old cliches. We gotta get a lotta new cliches."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Wonder Boys | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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