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Word: visitant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bubble Gum. Friday was his big day. In the morning the Mayor paid a surprise visit to a Manhattan traffic court, lectured and grimaced through 197 cases. At 10:30 Friday night, following Governor Dewey's dignified, half-hour endorsement of Republican-Liberal-Fusion Candidate Jonah J. Goldstein, Fiorello LaGuardia had one of his most sparkling innings. "You know," he cackled, "we prepared the studio today to hear the Governor. We put tapes on the windows, we braced ourselves, we wore lead-glass goggles, ready for the atomic bomb. And all we heard was the snap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How to Steal a Scene | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Oveta Culp Hobby, ex-director of the WAC, returned to Washington for a visit, showed conclusively that she had left all that way behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 12, 1945 | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...time I see a sofa." The two breaks that the 38-man football squad gets over the other 2,500 Cadets are: 1) a seat at the training table, where steaks and ice cream are more fre quent; 2) an occasional chance to leave barracks in the evening to visit the locker room and nurse a hurt or throw the bull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Tears & Champagne. When the U.S. went to war, Lucy gave expensive going-away parties for the sons of prominent families, served the best of champagne. When an Oxnard boy was killed in action, Lucy would visit the bereaved family and bawl like a cow with a thistle in its throat. When President Roosevelt died, Oxnard newspapers carried a paragraph of solemn comment from Lucy as well as from churchmen and other civic leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Sin & Souffl | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...Country interiors, brilliant Psychoanalyst Bergman handles raving patients and wolfish colleagues with equally prim professionalism. But when the institution's new head turns out to be tall, tousled, handsome Gregory Peck, she astonishes herself and the audience by turning up in his rooms on a highly unprofessional midnight visit. Since most of the medical staff seem to be only about two jumps ahead of the screaming meemies, no one pays much attention when "Psychiatrist" Peck begins to twitch and grimace over a few fork marks on the tablecloth. But Analyst Bergman quickly diagnoses her love object for the amnesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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