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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lauren Bacall cleared her throat in Hollywood and came out flatly against cheesecake: "It's a fallacy to think you look sexy just because you're wearing a low-cut gown or a tight sweater. You do it with a look ... or with your voice."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

The National Arts Foundation was making good on its promise to keep Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius (Finlandia, Valse Triste) in stogies for the rest of his life. Anticipating his 84th birthday Dec 8, the foundation started air-expressing 84 boxes of cigars to his forest cottage near Helsinki.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Less than a month after his re-election to one of the country's toughest jobs-mayor of New York-hard-working, onetime city cop William O'Dwyer, 59, was ordered by his doctors to Bellevue Hospital with "almost complete nervous and physical exhaustion." One indication that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Bag-eyed Fred Allen, taking a year's vacation from radio, told New York Herald Tribune Columnist John Crosby how it feels to be an "unemployed actor": "It's wonderful, this freedom. You can live on the money you save on aspirin. The only trouble is, I keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Often battered, seldom beaten Henry Armstrong, 36, who eleven years ago held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), and more recently has been managing fighters, announced in California that he intends to take a punch at the devil. He expects soon to be ordained a Baptist minister, tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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