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Word: hosting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contests (to find the country's most beautiful 15-year-old) Lux Radio Theater this week celebrated its 15th anniversary. The oldest and most popular drama show on the drama-heavy air. Lux Theater is billed as being "synonymous with all the greatness and glamour of Hollywood." Producer-Host William Keighley (rhymes with Seeley) calls it "good, solid, clean entertainment" in which "nothing is ever used that might offend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Teen-Ager | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...world premiere, replete with celebrities, floodlights, and engraved invitations will turn Massachusetts Avenue into Broadway at 11 p.m. The occasion is the first showing of "A Touch of the Times," student-written and produced flick. The University Theater will play host...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Glittering Premiere at U.T. Opens 'A Touch' Tonight | 10/14/1949 | See Source »

...host of police was swarming over Dillon Field House as the varsity concluded practice shortly after 6 p.m., but it was doghunt, and not a manhunt, in which they were involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football Team Works on Offensive | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...Francis . . .?" a reporter started to ask. "No comment," grumbled Lewis. "Is it true that Senator Bridges is about . . .?-" began another. "No comment." The reporters paused. "All right. All right," said their host. "Sorry I can't work for you boys all the time but I have other clients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Slight Deterrent Reaction | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...fashion was turning onward from the bustling '90s to the tubular '20s: the new line was boyish and slim. U.S. dressmakers had lifted skirts closer to the knees. Paris houses showed short, narrow evening gowns with huge, trainlike attachments and bathing suit tops. There was a host of minor gimmicks: the boyish haircut, jagged at the edges; the sleek "attenuated siren look"; huge black fur muffs; long umbrellas; Edwardian gloves; the lacquered evening "back-of-the-head bandeau"; Eton collars; the coal scuttle; the Picasso bicorne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Billion-Dollar Baby | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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