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Word: guitar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wedding, rattling the ice cubes in his drink, with people talking about the last picture they made and what the critics said and what the doctors thought about the baby's habit of sleeping with his fist in his eyes, and a man with a guitar singing fake Southern ballads . . . and the magenta girl with three breasts over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broadway Blinkers | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...arms in less time than it takes Leo Durocher to descend on a plate umpire. (3) Rita can achieve more in one glance than Mayor Curley in three terms. (4) She is the only actress in Hollywood who can boast of two relatives who are accomplished on the Spanish guitar, (These gentlemen are on display in the "Loves of Carmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Loves of Carmen" | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

...there wasn't any free stuff, and there wasn't much excitement. In 1944, the reformers committed an act of political cowardice. They ran Guitar Player Jimmy Davis for governor. Davis, who wanted to go to Hollywood, was a good candidate but a bad governor. He was just supposed to keep the seat warm until Sam Jones could come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Winnfield Frog | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Little Eva,* as she was called, dressed herself in rags and masqueraded as a Piccadilly Circus flower girl, or sold matches, to learn the needs and ways of the poor she was dedicated to help. To campaign against liquor, she bought a guitar and charmed boozers out of pubs with her singing. She began to preach in the vivid, staccato style that later packed the biggest auditoriums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Little Eva | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Married. Roy Rogers, 35, guitar-strumming "King of the Cowboys," idol of cinema-going U.S. moppets; and Dale Evans, 29, his unkissed leading lady through 24 Westerns; each for the second time; at a ranch near Davis, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1948 | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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