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Word: nightclubs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waitresses on linen table cloths, and are tastier than those served in many restaurants. Inter-club sports are amazingly organized, with the annual trophy one of the most highly respected honors for a club to possess. Inter-club dances also afford entertainment in a town that boasts not one nightclub. Over-night accommodations for visiting girls are also arranged in the clubhouse, at charges considerably less than asked by the few available hotels...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Princeton Clubs Divided on Proposal to Open Membership to 100 Percent of Upper Classes | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

Safely back in Hollywood after flooring a glamor girl who wanted his panda doll in a Manhattan nightclub (TIME, Oct. 10), Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart reminisced a bit. The judge who dismissed the girl's suit, he thought, was "a nice guy-the Frank Morgan type." But Bogart decided that the real hero of the incident was Bogart, who had "wised some people up about the notion that they can push celebrities around." He added: "I'd say it compared to the Dreyfus case. You might report that I struck a blow for freedom, not to mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Toil & Trouble | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Series of Quarrels. Guay told police nothing. A slight, boyish-looking man with wavy hair, he had met Rita Morel, in a Quebec arsenal during the war. Their marriage became a long series of quarrels. Last spring Guay began going with a pretty young nightclub waitress named Marie-Ange Robitaille. Rita and her five-year-old daughter moved to her mother's home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Flight to Baie Comeau | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Last week, as they have ever since she opened in mid-month, the corks were popping (at $16 a bottle) in a chichi midtown Manhattan nightclub called the Versailles. To everyone who could crowd in, even the $6.50 filet mignon seemed a bargain when little (4 ft. 11 in., 90 Ibs.) Piaf ("The Sparrow") began to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Vie en Rose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. George Huntington Hartford II, 38, A. & P.* chain store heir (and grandson of the founder); and Marjorie Sue Steele, 19, onetime nightclub cigarette girl; he for the second time; on Sept. 10; in Gardnerville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1949 | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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