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Word: clabber (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic actor, he chose Material Witness, by Henry (Time Limit) Denker, and the title role of an average householder who sweated out 50 dreary minutes in fear that gangland killers would learn of his presence at one of their crimes. The show was just another dipperful of clabber out of Kraft Theater's antique churn. Berle played the shallowly written role with egregious self-control. Conscious of his dignity as a TV elder statesman, he liked the part because it was, said he proudly, "something unbrash, unflippant and unaggressive-I wanted to get away from the Berle trademarks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Return of an Old Ham | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

Nothing is too insignificant to escape their wrenlike curiosity. "You'd be surprised at the signs," says Mrs. Gill. "I noted them down. The ones we saw all over the United States were the Clabber Girl advertisement, Quaker State motor oil, Burma-Shave, Harold's Club of Reno and Jesse James's Hideout." Mrs. Gill has also noted every highway sign she has seen that needs correcting. "America," she says, "is full of wrong directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: On Their Merry Way | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...nostalgic group of Hoosiers in Boston caught up with Indiana's favorite songster, clabber-voiced Composer Hoagy (Rockin' Chair) Carmichael, and presented him with a 150-year-old Salem rocking chair. Said Hoagy from a comfortable slouch: "A good rocking chair is like music, sort of has euphony. It takes no effort to make it rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Outrageous Fortune | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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