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Word: bottomly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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What finally brought the theater back to Washington was nothing loftier than the fact that the bottom had dropped out of burlesque at the old Gayety, so the management went legit. For the New Gayety's opening with a touring company of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, starring Susan Peters, honky-tonk Ninth Street bloomed with klieg lights and dinner-jacketed Congressmen and diplomats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Comeback | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Several pairs of gray flannels and white shoes with people in them recently walked off with a sea scene from a Boston social club, which prefers to remain anonymous. The work, an etching called "Bottom Fishing," will net anyone who brings it back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flannel-Clad Jokers Snag Pisces Picture | 3/17/1950 | See Source »

Members of the club who saw the culprits walk out with "Bottom Fishing" for some strange reason thought it was a joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flannel-Clad Jokers Snag Pisces Picture | 3/17/1950 | See Source »

...this year. Most of the money went toward paying the expenses of the NSA delegation's trips. In reply to a demand from Council Treasurer Roy M. Goodman '51 for a cut on this item, Robert F. Fuller '50, chairman of the Harvard NSA, insisted four men was rock bottom for adequate representation at national conventions...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Council Reduces NSA Staff, Votes Separate Fund Drive | 3/14/1950 | See Source »

...voice went on to accuse the station of hiring engineers at low salaries for a probationary six months, then firing and rehiring them to start at the bottom. The voice concluded: "I would be very surprised if I get this far without being cut off the air. And I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Interlude | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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