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Word: wolfed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Affair. In Manhattan, a homecoming merchant seaman, informed by customs authorities that it would cost $5 to take his lately acquired Russian wolf hound ashore, decided to wait a while, eventually forked over $30 for the wolf hound and her five brand-new puppies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Leader of the Wolf-Pack for this week: Herschel "Measles" Futral. (Or didn't you see him trying to steal Tom Gaines' girl at chow Thursday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 6/13/1944 | See Source »

...Cicco, cafe-famed as Gloria Vanderbilt's husband, also as a onetime "assistant wolf," took a double-barreled beating in a Manhattan nightclub. Di Cicco, an Army Air Forces lieutenant, was amusing himself by loudly abusing a small, meek newspaperman. A quiet Texan by the name of Benny Bickers objected. Di Cicco called him something, neglected to smile. Benny knocked him down. Di Cicco left the club, waited for Bickers in the street. When the Texan came out, di Cicco took off his coat, put up his dukes. Benny knocked him down again. What di Cicco learned the hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Wolfers. In Winnipeg, Manitoba, Lieut. George Benstock, back from a tour of duty in Canada's northland, told of a wolf trapper who lost two front teeth of his store set, substituted two wolves' teeth stuck in with glue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1944 | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; Dinah in blackface; a four-voice rendition of the Sextette from Lucia, with Murphy (as a matador) and Cantor (as a knight-at-arms) munching bananas; Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis impersonating Antony & Cleopatra. The story concerns George Murphy, a wolf, who has heart trouble with Nancy Kelly, a wolverine, and Constance Moore, who 1) shuns, 2) marries, 3) divorces, 4) remarries him. Common sense is left strictly (in small doses) to Comics Cantor and Davis, who get along fine with each other. The picture's chief novelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bender | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

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