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Word: corns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaudeville song-and-dance for her, gave a lesser role to sister Rose Louise (who later became Gypsy Rose), added a chorus of little boys, who often "had very little talent because Mother didn't expect to pay them." The act packed 'em in across Pantages' corn-fed circuit. "God is watching over our little act," Mother reassured everyone. "He won't knock vaudeville out from under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VAUDEVILLE: Saga of Dainty June | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

...Fair Lady cribs from Shaw, West Side Story cribs from Shakespeare, and The Music Man cribs from a silo of Iowa corn, making these three musicals grand larceny and great entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...Fair Lady cribs from Shaw, West Side Story cribs from Shakespeare, and The Music Man cribs from a silo of Iowa corn, making these three musicals grand larceny and great entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...busy from Broadway to Hollywood well into 1963, he also rode herd simultaneously on two diverse TV spectaculars: a 1½-hour adaptation of Terence Rattigan's familiar The Browning Version, and a two-hour edition of Sally Benson's equally familiar collection of all-American corn, Meet Me in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Producer's Progress | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

This is obviously the kind of fertile fictional earth just right for the tall corn. To Author Lacour's credit, he does not overcultivate the acres. When Chark, the German, tells them of his plan to search for a gold-carrying plane that has crashed, all agree to stick together. Ridiculously ill-equipped, they begin a journey whose terrors bring out the best and worst in them all. Starving, sick, half-crazed, they stumble along after the German, take turns carrying the child and the box of crucifixes that the priest intends for native Indians. The ceaseless procession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Hell | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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