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Word: girlfriend (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college girlfriend, Eva Marie Saint fills what is essentially a small and not overly interesting character with an agreeable kind of sweetness and light. And Elizabeth Taylor is still the most beautiful film actress today, despite the alarming evidence of a double chin. It takes little charity to forgive her occasional deficiencies as an actress...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Raintree County | 10/19/1957 | See Source »

...Question. In Milwaukee, Lyle Gamroth, 22, punched his wife Janet in the nose and brandished a revolver at her, gave her wrist watch, engagement and wedding rings to his 17 year-old girlfriend, just before getting a six-month jail sentence for assault and battery screamed at his wife: "I don't know why you want to send me to prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...screenplay. And Grace Kelly is somewhat overglamorous as the wife. But the rest of the performances are up to High Noon's generally high level of writing and direction, particularly Lloyd Bridges as the edgy deputy marshal and Katy Jurado as the marshal's fiery ex-girlfriend. Gary Cooper, as the marshal, has one of the outstanding roles of his long acting career: a tired and unheroic gunfighter, doggedly stalking through the desolate streets of Hadleyville, his lone figure casting a long shadow before it as the heat and drama mount relentlessly to the crisis of high noon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 14, 1952 | 7/14/1952 | See Source »

...Most smarties know very few women. It is not smart to know women undergraduates, and it is unheard of to have a girlfriend, except in London. The very smartest, of course, know no women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smarties | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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