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Word: affectionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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The pleasantly dissonant tuning up and chatter stopped in mid-note as the grey-haired man in the tan sport coat walked briskly across the stage to the podium. For a few silent moments his glance flickered over the musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his shale-blue eyes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

But he was recognized and respected among the barons of the underworld. He became an intimate of Arnold Rothstein, the great gambler and criminal banker; he gained the esteem and affection of Tammany Swagman Jimmy Hines. When Al Capone and the other big men of gangland met in the famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

A few of the international civil servants were perturbed by the state of the world. Denmark's Ole Svend Hamann showed a surrealist living room with a man sitting beside a radio, reading a newspaper. From his pipe rises a mushroom-shaped atomic cloud. "What is a home?" reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Island of Peace? | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

The process of wooing the woman voter is a little different, in one respect, from that of winning the support of the recalcitrant and suspicious male-words are sometimes not enough. Having made Georgia Neese Clark Treasurer of the U.S. and having sent diamond-studded Mrs. Perle Mesta off as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Pride of Red Wing | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Last week, at 21, Shirley completed Hollywood's classic domestic cycle-and startled millions of Americans who have followed her precocious public & private life with affection and a worrisome feeling that the years do whiz by. She filed a divorce suit against handsome, 28-year-old John Agar, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Dignified Manner | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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