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Word: tramps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrying on with his wife, though he coldly hints his awareness of what's up. Coast Guardsman Ryan slowly comes to realize 1) that the painter is holding Joan trapped in a sadistic relationship, 2) that Joan is no lady in distress but a bone-bred tramp, 3) that the pair of them are exploiting him for ugly, mysterious reasons of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...inspired and most popular artists-a man who for decades has delighted people of all races, from children to highbrows-now deliberately releases a film which almost nobody can wholly like. Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it. He has replaced his beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with the bulk of the non-Latin world. He has gone light on pure slapstick and warm laughter, and has borne down on moral complexity, terror and irony with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

With the winds of a recent 6 to 3 win over M.I.T., whipping at their heels, the Varsity golfers will tramp the Winchester fairways this afternoon in an effort to make a smooth-stroking Bowdoin team their second victim of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Tees Off Against Bowdoin Golf Team Today | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

...your issue of Dec. 16, in a very able analysis of the difficulties of the British Empire (page 30), your reporter states: "British justice, tramp steamers and Scotch whiskey loosely bind a diverse association of peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Efforts to locate Fred Husband, the author of the hobo plan, were at first unsuccessful due to the fact that Planner Husband is himself a tramp. The Vagrancy Committee tried to trace him with the help of the newspapers. Last week he was discovered in a fish & chips shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planned Vagrancy | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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