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Word: call (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foolish fellow indeed, pleased but generally unable to cope with the greatness so suddenly thrust upon him. In the process he becomes even more bedraggled and gormless than the natives, and makes it incredible that anyone, much less a bright scornful girl like Pegeen Mike, could call him a lad with "a mighty spirit in him and a gamey heart...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Playboy of the Western World | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

...addition to rebuilding the interior of the building at 9 Prescott St., contractors will modernize and slightly alter the club. Plans call for a new dining room one-third larger than the former one and a modern office in the right-hand room on the ground floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Repairs Begin On Burnt-Out Varsity Club | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

...search for truth in favor of mugging and running around, and none of these three productions is exempt from this tendency. As indicated above, there are compensations (Jane Fishburne's imaginative costumes comprise another.) But whoever exhumed these scripts deserves a citation for industry very far beyond the call of duty. There is something exhilarating about a triumph over a script that has outlived its audience-appeal, but there is something even more exhilarating about a successful collaboration with a good...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Three Farces | 2/27/1959 | See Source »

...soft sell has a hard core. In streams of enticing ads it pushes telephone extensions ("What a beautiful way to save steps!"), phones in color (more than 8,000,000 in the U.S.), and frequent use of the long-distance wires to call Granny (three or four kids are usually pictured waiting to get on the line-and they usually do). "There are still elderly people who worry about when their three minutes are up," says Fred Kappel happily, "but young -people pay no attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Voices Across the Land | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...When space was booked in Guterma's name on a plane to Ankara, SEC quickly obtained a warrant for his arrest, said that losses to investors would reach many millions. Picked up with him was a longtime financial associate, Robert J. Eveleigh, who was found in a Manhattan call girls' apartment fortnight ago when police raided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Alexander the Great | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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