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Word: breen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tony Rome is the best thing Frank Sinatra has ruined since Mia Farrow. As in her case, though, it isn't all Sinatra's doing. Richard Conte, Jill St. John, Simon Oakland and Gena Rowlands, among the cast, plus screenwriter Richard Breen and director Gordon Douglas, have given Rome their...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Tony Rome | 11/22/1967 | See Source »

Screenwriter Richard Breen establishes his nowness with lines like "That's one thing you can't blame on Lyndon Johnson" (Sinatra to Oakland, whose jewels have been stolen) and "You interested in acid, pot or banana peels?" (a character called Fat Candy who's a prostitute...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Tony Rome | 11/22/1967 | See Source »

...today's game Harvard faces the best Engineer team in ten years. Coach Breen Munro has worked his boys through hard practices the past two days, and he hopes to eliminate what he refers to as "the cavalier attitude that sometimes catches up with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Faces M.I.T. Today; Stickmen Meet Improved Engineers | 4/13/1966 | See Source »

Died. Joseph Ignatius Breen, 75, longtime (1934-54) arbiter of Hollywood's movie morals, who was hired by the Hays (later Johnston) Office to boss the industry's keep-it-clean Production Code, started out by telling producers, "I'm going to throw a helluva lot of your celluloid in the ashcan," which he did while offering such "suggestions" as "Eliminate the action of Spit actually expectorating," only once faced open revolt-when Howard Hughes in 1954 released The French Line without a Seal of Approval, thus earning a $25,000 fine; of a stroke; in West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 17, 1965 | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...Fire breaks out on the sixth floor of New Quincy, in the living room of suite 602, shortly after 5 a.m. The fire is discovered at about 5:20 by security officer John Breen, who places an alarm at the alarm box on Grant and DeWolfe Streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Rages in Four Quincy Suites; Cause of $35,000 Blaze is Unknown | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

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