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Word: wolfed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appetite, an universal wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bard for Today | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...Varsity was never headed. BU threatened twice, paced by forwards Joe Silver and George Gaudreault, who scored almost at will to account for all but four of the Terrier points between them. Both times they moved to within three points of the Crimson, but short spurts kept the wolf from the door...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: QUINTET WHIPS TERRIERS | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...unexpected as the mediocrity of the main feature is the merit of "Counter Espionage." In contrast to a second rate musical, the spectator finds a gripping tale of espionage in blacked out London. To be sure. Warren William as the suave Lone Wolf saves the girl and the British Isles, but by that time half of the audience has collapsed from the suspense. His endearing side-kick, Eric Blore, ambles through the greatest dangers with obstinate indifference...

Author: By C. F. N. i., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/3/1943 | See Source »

...handsome, armored Prince (Hitler) wakes the rotund, snoozing Princess (Germany) with a kiss, lugs her away on a white horse to a boozy version of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries. Most pointed bit: little Hans is punished for sympathizing with a fabled rabbit devoured by a wolf. Hans learns his lesson: "I hate the rabbit-the rabbit is a weakling -he is no Nazi rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nazis on Celluloid | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

Good Works & Bad. Thus Leon Henderson, watchdog of the nation's prices, big bad wolf to Congress and bull in a china shop to all & sundry, dropped out of one of the biggest of all wartime offices. For all his polite interchange of letters with his President, Henderson did not fall. He was pushed: by the farm bloc, by Midwestern Congressmen who loathe gasoline rationing, by Democrats who thought that his restrictions had been the biggest factor in November's election returns. And perhaps the Administration felt it was time to sacrifice him when a new blunder over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit Smiling | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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