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Word: brookses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides her long-suffering husband (Gene Lyons), Dulcy's circle includes her bemused brother-in-law (Perry Fiske); a humorless, successful businessman (Lawrence Fletcher) with a flighty, amateur-writing wife (Gloria Barret), love-smitten daughter (Betty Rollin), and silly advertising agent (Brooks Rogers); an overdrawn temperamental Hollywoodite (Leo Bloom), who...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Dulcy | 8/14/1958 | See Source »

Low Bail. Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson ('17), stoutly denies that he was one of the shop's nicotine-tarnished idlers, admits only that "once or twice a year (not often enough to be recognized) I did drop in to take a free pipeful of Cake Box Mixture from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wistfully, the Weed | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Women's colleges, luncheon clubs, waistlines, and bank accounts got bigger. Madison Avenue, in a Brooks Brothers and button-down salaam to the Little Woman and her big roller pin, committed the ultimate betrayal of privacy every TV evening: the advertising grab-bag of under-arm deodorants, living bras, toilet...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Case Against Woman | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

Before opening night, this sort of plot was regarded by Broadway wiseacres as something that belongs in the theatrical graveyard. But when the opening-night curtain fell, most critics were ecstatic. "Marvelous," said the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson. "If Mark Twain could have collaborated with Vachel Lindsay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pied Piper of Broadway | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

The Harvard Union, open Monday through Friday from 8 A.M. to 10 P.M., boasts a television set in its card room. Facilities at Phillips Brooks House include ping-pong, pianos, sitting rooms, meeting rooms, and a kitchenette. The building is open Monday through Friday from 9 A.M. to midnight, but...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Summer Scholar's Life: Quite a Happy One; Concerts and Lunches, Dances and Punches | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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