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Word: wolfe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officers were checking leads on a possible male and female accomplice late last night, despite Parkhurst's vigorous claims that he always operated as a lone wolf in all of his felonious activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Records Show Parkhurst in Draft Scandal | 1/10/1947 | See Source »

...York Stadium contest (prize: the right to appear with the New York Symphony Orchestra). In 1930, she decided that she must study in Germany. When she had perfected her lieder, songs by Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, she gave her first concert on the Continent. It cost her $500 (the Germans explained that it was customary for Americans to pay 'for their own concerts). She never paid again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Egypt Land | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Wolf Cukersvein, a 35-year-old, Warsaw-born doctor who left Poland because, as a Jew, he could not gain admission to a university; had fled anti-Semitism in Italy; settled in Toulouse as a radiologist: "Even there I ... could not get work because of racial prejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Prayers for the Departed | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Jacobean comedy will revisit, Cambridge this week when Radcliffe's Idler Club raises the curtain on its 1946-47 theater season. Directed by Mrs. Mark de Wolf Howe, the Garden Street actresses will present the first performances in 120 years of John Fietcher's "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife" on Thursday. Friday and Saturday eventings at Agassiz Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Comedy Revival Opens 'Cliffe Season | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...woman trouble there'll be Steve's secretary, a tasty Samoan dish named Feeta Feeta. Harder to handle will be Copper Calhoon, "not exactly a good girl, yet within the legal limits. She's the daughter of a Wall Street wolf and just as tough as her old man. It's much easier to make a gal a baddie than a goodie. My plots are complicated. You've got to read it every day so that you'll know what happens. Make it so they can't stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Not for Kids | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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