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Word: diggers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Editor Seymour, whose two papers overflow with columnists (e.g., Drew Pearson, Winchell, Walter Lippmann, Mrs. Roosevelt et al.), got down to cases on Pearson-"vindictive, vicious, a soapboxer. But I'd say that he's a good policeman and digger." Of Westbrook Pegler: "[He] is not in the same class [as Pearson]. Pegler is not performing a service now, though I suppose in the early days of his union muckraking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From A to Z | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Barbara Stauwyek does an excellent job as the soft-hearted gold digger. Needless to say, eventually she really falls for the guy. No one will mind this, however, because it's just more comic material for Preston Sturges to work with. There's no "hoke" in "The Lady Eve." Far from...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...client in the hospital; all he wanted was a fair settlement. Of course, any Erie Stanley Gardner fan could have told Perry Mason he was headed for plenty of trouble. Before The Case of the Cautious Coquette is over, Mason gets tangled up with a dazzling blonde gold digger, unwittingly puts his own fingerprints on a murder weapon, runs down a smart killer who has the cops going around in circles, gets settlements from two self-confessed hit & run drivers, and gives a stuffy district attorney plenty of what-for right in open court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heroes Who Shoot Straight | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...landlady's nephew; his old pals (including Jimmy Gleason) scorn him when he gets to be an executive, but welcome him back to the fold when it turns out that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes, is not out of place in Bendix' parlor. Moviegoers may wish they had stayed at home around the radio, where someone could keep a hand on the tuning knob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back from buying a work dress in a country store; and in a letter quoted from a lady of Chaucer's day to her husband, the cooing tone of the gentle gold digger sounds clearly through the medieval prose: "I would you were at home, liever than a gown, though it were of scarlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To All Appearances | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

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