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Word: wolfe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 16 you have a picture of a werewolf. You adorned your mythical horror with a long, bushy tail. Now, that's absolute heresy. A werewolf is bobtailed. It was by his short tail that a werewolf was ordinarily to be distinguished from a real honest-to-goodness wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1945 | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Despite these activities, the Senator is still an early riser, getting to his office at 8, whisking swiftly through documents and mail before the committee hearings begin at 10. In the Senate club, he is, by & large, a lone wolf. He is living proof that a man can be a successful politician and public servant without being a backslapper. He has his dignity. He is not athletic, likes starchy foods, smokes a box of Sano (denicotinized) cigars a week, and has almost no hobbies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: To the World | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...woods; PWA meant big concrete dams rising on the Tennessee and the Columbia. WPA meant leaf-raking and boondoggling - and succor for the hungry. A big song hit of 1932 was Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? In 1933, people whistled Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? "Kerensky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roosevelt's Life & Times | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Gradually and uneasily, however, they approach and finally achieve a meeting in the realm of normal human temperature. They are helped along by their compound jealousy over a wolf in refugee's clothing (Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Hank "the Broon" Sheller and Red English spent six days of their leave together--on the train. Tom Wilcox, "Dreamboat" Walker, Sam Wolf, et al, let no grass grow under their respective feet, for they all had dates immediately after returning to the Hub. What were your dates' names, boys? What do you mean, you don't know...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: *The Lucky Bag* | 3/27/1945 | See Source »

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