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Word: tireder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bride for Sale (RKO Radio) is a tired old triangle farce in which three veterans crank out the creaking whimsy. As a high-powered tax consultant, Claudette Colbert spends her days poring through income-tax forms looking for a home-loving rich husband. To keep her in his employ, George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Handsome Alfonso VIII of Castile was married to a haughty English princess named Eleanor of Aquitaine (sister of Richard the Lionhearted), but he tired of her and ran off to Toledo with his darkly lovely Jewish mistress. The love story lasted for seven years, and then the mistress was poisoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Case of the Curious Sexton | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The steady stream of wrong numbers continued at a five-a-day clip. It took about a week to discover that the number of the Telephone Shopping Service of Fileno's was ELiot 4-5000, and that Bostonians, in their haste to latch onto a new pair of pants, had...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errant Phone Calls Plague Freshmen With Requests | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

The Wheel of History. The accused were twelve White Russian emigrès who had become Soviet citizens in 1946, when Stalin granted an "amnesty" to the White refugee colonies in China, France and Yugoslavia. The Russians had given Soviet passports to thousands of emigres, who, although antiCommunist, were tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Face on the Courtroom Wall | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Conrad Hilton thinks such a future is fine and he plans to start making it come true by building high-priced, small hotels in the smaller cities which were passed over in the hotel-building '20s. He is now eyeing land in Atlanta, Beverly Hills and Havana. But he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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