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Word: lightheartedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amid the carnage Cinemactors Bogart and Astor manage to mix lighthearted love and heavy-handed melodrama with some funny conversation.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

Picture-minded Yank's first issue was breezy but less lighthearted than Stars & Stripes. Typical ingredients:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Yank | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

My Gal Sal (20th Century-Fox) is the kind of bright, tuneful, lighthearted musical that was once Broadway's dish. It has the authentic Tin-Pan Alley touch-gilded by the nostalgic charm of the nicely naughty '90s. It also has so many other good things that it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 4, 1942 | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

"This is Serious." Air-raid meetings were attended by gay, lighthearted volunteers. At a meeting in an uptown Manhattan high school, citizens giggled at an expert who tried to explain how to blackout streets. Muttered a sad-faced, sad-voiced Frenchman: "How can they laugh? This is serious." Backstreet toughies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Confused & Unprepared | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Four days later, Francisco Arvallo, a peddler, driving along the same route, came upon Cornejo's stalled truck. Near by was a woman who screamed at him and waved a hat. It was Cornejo's daughter, Socorro. A man, Francisco Flores, was alive, lying under a bush. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARIZONA: The Devil's Highway | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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