Word: wanning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Overnight, Durocher the tartar became Durocher the martyr. Leo permitted himself a wan smile for photographers, spoke a sentiment for the press that he had seldom been able to utter before: "It's swell to know that some people are behind...
...Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton last week, 50 suntanned Californians tripped from ship to shore, bound for the London boat train and a fortnight's tour of the British Isles. A wan sun, hidden for days by fog, peeked out at them, just in time to make good the British Travel Association's current slogan: "Spring comes early to Britain...
Though the whole process was one of mute foreboding, like a visit to a dentist or a piano teacher, the average citizen held still for the frisk and sometimes even managed a wan smile. By dint of withholding and pay-as-you-go plans, the government usually had his tax money by March anyhow. And this year, because of tax law changes in 1948, he could experience a temporary and spurious elation-of approximately 50 million taxpayers (5,000,000 fewer than last year's record total), 80% would get rebates...
...companion feature is a Cisco Kid epic, with Leo Carillo and Duncan Renaldo. Fet's a good wan to meess, ch, Cisco...
Inspector Joseph P. Breen arrested Gallagher Friday night in a North Cambridge restaurant on suspicion of a rape on November 8, another last Tuesday, and an attempted rape on Thursday. He wan tried for rape and acquitted three years...