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Word: codfish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all," recalled Veteran Actress Ruth Gordon, 79. "If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a facelift." Gordon, however, was simply having salted codfish balls and mashed potatoes when she sat down to lunch in a Manhattan restaurant with her husband of 33 years, Writer Garson Kanin. The result? A case of ptomaine and three days away from Broadway's Mrs. Warren's Profession, where she is currently starring as a middle-aged madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 5, 1976 | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...Louis resolves to repay his father's debt by working as a trumpeter. One of his jobs is as a trumpeter playing "Row, Row Your Boat" while swimming in front of the swan boats in the Public Garden in Boston ("Boston, which . . . is famous for its baked beans, its codfish, its tea parties, its Cabots, its Lowells, its Saltonstalls, and its Swan Boats.") He earns fame in Boston, and gets a ten-week engagement at a night club in Philadelphia. By this time, he is a great musician, giving Sunday afternoon classical concerts at the Philadelphia Zoo, where he lives...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Regressing Swansong | 10/31/1970 | See Source »

...Ride the Whirlwind), he made Clint Eastwood look like Laurence Olivier. In Easy Rider, he walked on and won the film from Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda. Then he descended to his former persona in On a Clear Day, playing either Barbra Streisand's lover or a codfish. It was difficult to tell which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Supergypsy | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

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