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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could tell you that it isn't Frankie's looks. It's the "soul" in his singing, but you probably wouldn't be able to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...that's what makes trouble. For Barbara so out-sexes even the girl witches with whom the witch-boy used to spend his time, riding around in the moonlight on eagles, that he wants to become a human and marry her. Warned by the Conjur Man that being human isn't easy, and enticed by the wiles of the girl witches, he nonetheless insists on becoming a man "with a soul." "You'll be sorry, witch-boy," wail the girl witches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...play he is. Two conditions in his becoming human--one providing that he never enter any church of God and the other threatening to make him a witch again if Barbara Allen isn't faithful for a full year--make his sorrow, Barbara's death, and the story of "Dark of the Moon." Throughout this story, at the wedding, in the woods when the witch-girls display excellent reasons for the boy's return to the moon-and-eagle life, in the Allen cabin, and above all at the revival in the church when Barbara is accused of marrying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...half a lifetime." But, he added: "I am almost a supporter of all parties, whether Tory or Liberal, Socialist or Catholic, Mohammedan, Buddhist or Labor. All my life I've been in the struggle to see things improved, which is what everyone else is trying to do too, isn't it?" His latest play, Red Roses for Me, produced in suburban London in February, is about the Dublin transport strike of 1913. Said the Daily Express: "Glorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor, Dear, Dead Men | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Prodded with more questions on labor, and in particular the soft coal strike, Stassen again chose a two-way answer, saying "I think there is a sound basis for Lewis' demands. That isn't to say how much his welfare fund should start with. No, I don't agree with his methods...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Stassen Straddles Partisan Sides Of All Controversies | 5/9/1946 | See Source »

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