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Word: caine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lanza, who sang for newsmen soon after his TV fiasco to prove that his thunderous throat had lost none of its volume, was signed by Warner Bros, to star in the screen version of James M. Cain's novel Serenade. In the film, to be shot early next year, Mario will portray an opera star whose voice suddenly deserts him, then briefly returns to him in Mexico as he leads a more manly life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 3, 1955 | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...teens. Henceforth, the clubfoot and the sensitive heart hid themselves in the disguise of a cold, cloven-hoofed devil. On his brow, at a moment's notice, would appear "that singular scowl" which caused one acquaintance to exclaim that he "had never seen a man with such a Cain-like mark on the forehead." A Pair of Stays. A Miss Elizabeth Pigot had the honor of discovering that Byron was addicted to poetry. When she read him some poems of Burns, he astonished her by saying that "he, too, was a poet sometimes." After he published his first signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: TheMost Amiable Monster | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...that A-B-C symbolic level, when the panther eats up some Good Instincts (cows), a sort of back-country Cain (Robert Mitchum) and his Abel-type brother (William Hopper) set forth to slay the beast. Abel dies beneath the Tree of Life and Cain also turns up his toes. But a third brother (Tab Hunter) puts a bullet in the panther, and just at that instant the sun breaks through a cloud, transfiguring him into something painfully like the Better Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 29, 1954 | 11/29/1954 | See Source »

...issue of building a new stadium on the campus, for example, McGurk's ideas seem in direct contradiction to Mather's. "It's very unlikely that you'll ever see a big football stadium out here," said the President, "because the faculty would raise cain against it." The present dismountable bleachers are far more satisfactory than a permanent football stadium, Mather feels. McGurk has other ideas. Pointing to a flat field some 500 yards away from the present athletic plant, he proudly states: "That's where our new stadium will be in a few years...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Fast Expanding University of Massachusetts Seeks to Discard Outworn 'Cow College' Label | 10/2/1954 | See Source »

...Cain went out from the presence of the Lord . . . and he builded a city . . ." Genesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Wright Word | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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