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Word: wifely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ornament are lavished upon it but something sets it apart from the ordinary brassy Technicolor revue: possibly the plot, possibly the staging, possibly the perennial wisecracks of Oscar Levant. But however you look at it, credit will eventually bounce back on Astaire and Rogers. Cast as a bickering husband-wife stage team, these two leap, slide, and tap their way through scene after scene of pleasant comedy and wonderful dancing, and what's more, seem to enjoy...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/31/1949 | See Source »

...buggies.) He presides at his daily student assemblies; is always full of campus news and cracker-barrel advice ("The hills are changing color again. Be sure to look"). He still holds Sunday vespers, beaming when the boys sing "real loud." In campus affection he has only one rival: his wife Helen, who teaches chemistry and algebra, and is always ready with cocoa when boys drop around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Massachusetts Yankee | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Silent Partner. In Boston, Ventriloquist James Johnson, on trial for deserting his wife, was told by the judge: "You must choose between your wife and the dummy"; promptly chose the dummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Take Thy Rest." Dark-haired, vigorous Conductor Jones had few worries about his soloists (one, Contralto Lilian Knowles, is his wife) or about the great choir before him. Some of the choristers didn't even need scores. Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 82, was a charter member who had been singing in the choir ever since its founder, J. Fred Wolle, came home to Bethlehem 50 years ago from his studies in Munich, determined to dedicate himself and Bethlehem to Bach. Two others had been singing for 47 years, and more than 40 had been in the choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hosanna! | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...drunkard. Not to be caught napping a second time, Maureen sobers him up, supplies him with bed & board, and helps him to start a puppet theater in the mews. After a stretch of successful puppeteering, the couple's happiness is threatened by the return of Dana's wife from the U.S. But everything is straightened out in time for a jolly family reunion with Maureen's respectable parents down in Surrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, May 30, 1949 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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