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Word: comically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot be said that Sparkman represents the resolution of the conflict between the South and the New Deal. What he represents is a desperate, often skillful, sometimes comic effort to resolve that conflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Percentage | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

Guess What Happened? (Thurs.8:30 p.m., NBC). Debut of a panel show aimed at discovering what big news stories some plain citizens have helped to make; with Moderator John Cameron Swayze, Comic Roger Price, Humorist H. Allen Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Camrose's magazines are on the tables of almost every British home. Teen-age girls read his Home Chat, after they are married they read his Weldons Ladies Journal. For children he has comic books, for parsons Quiver; there are dozens of technical, trade and professional magazines, on everything from farming to motorcycling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Berry Brothers | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Shotgun Plot. Yet only in its core is it a gentle play. Coarse comic moods ripple its surface, and its three leading characters are emotional cripples. Pig-eyed Phil

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lament for the Loveless | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Married (20th Century-Fox) is a sort of comic sequel to A Letter to Three Wives, which showed how a rumor of infidelity affected a trio of young suburban matrons. The current picture shows the way five husbands and their wives react to the news that they are not legally married. An absent-minded justice of the peace (Victor Moore) had married them before his commission went legally into effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1952 | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

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