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Word: trios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl had wandered into Central Park after a Y.W.C.A. dance. They had been attacked by three thugs who had beaten the young man to death, robbed his body of some $6, and hauled his girl into the bushes for a double rape. About 4 a.m. the same day, a trio answering the same description had dragged two men from a car in Astoria, shot one, and beaten the other mercilessly. For twelve days, the thugs had been at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Thin Man | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Died. John Hollis Bankhead, 73, Senator from Alabama since 1931, who fought hard for the restoration of ex-King Cotton to the U.S. economic throne, last of a hardy trio of congressional Bankheads, uncle of throaty Actress Tallulah; of cerebral thrombosis; in Bethesda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...autobiography, covering the period of his seventh to 17th years (1899-1909). Like Left Hand, Right Hand! (TIME, May 15, 1944), it is a combination of acute filial impiety, antique sentence structure and genuine literary skill. If anyone else had dared publish half its secrets, the Sitwell trio would have screamed with rage, summoned their solicitors and sued with a vengeance.* As it is, The Scarlet Tree is by no means the spectacular Sitwell history that may some day be written, but it is a family album with portraits in the best Sitwell style, and a precious, corrosive, amusing record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sitwelliana, II | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Kraft Music Hall (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). A better-than-average variety show, starring Edward Everett Horton, Eddy Duchin, and the King Cole Trio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 17, 1946 | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Eily still takes her crocheting down to afternoon tea at the restaurant where Tolly's trio-which specializes in light classics-will play Cruising only by request. The two chums have already written a new Skaters' Waltz, but, says Eily, "We'll never write another Cruising. It was just a flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lady Hit-Paraders | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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