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Word: walkings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carlton and had to watch while he bought flowers for Ondra and invited her for supper. ... I am now going to buy some more sleeping tablets. At least then I will be half dazed. . . . According to Frau Hoffmann ... he now has a substitute for me. Her name is Walküre and she looks it, including her legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dear Diary | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...collegians at Amherst set the loo-year-old jingle to music and sang it over pots of ale, when they wanted to prove that they could walk a musical straight line. One of the many versions ran like this: In China there lived a little man His name was Chingery-ri-chan-chan, His feet were large and his head was small, And this little man had no brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chickery Chick | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...Sound of Hunting (by Harry Brown; produced by Irving L. Jacobs) is Harry Brown's first play and, like his first novel, is about the war. But A Sound of Hunting lacks the substance, along with the timeliness, of A Walk in the Sun. It has certain merits, but almost no meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...walk along the Bois de Boolong, With an independent air, You can hear the girls declare 'He must be a millionaire.' You can hear them sigh and 'wish to die,' You can see them wink the other eye At the man who broke the bank at Monte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 3, 1945 | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Their backgrounds differ also. New York State-born Lindsay, 56, has been close to the footlights since he gave public recitations as a child, of such ditties as When You See a Man in Woe, Walk Right Up and Say Hello. Carrying a spear, working in tent shows, Shakespeare, burlesque, he found his feet in the '20s as a director (Dulcy, Gay Divorce), founded his fortune in the '30s as a playwright (She Loves Me Not). Eighteen years ago he married delicate, blond Dorothy Stickney (the original Mother in Life With Father), whom a wag once described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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