Word: dads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phonograph played Beat Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem, Crucifixion, and a lithe girl danced an "interpretation" to the cool-cat words: "He was a kind of carpenter from a square-type place like Galilee . . . who said the cat who really laid it on us all was his Dad ..." Another amateur actor played the role of Christ crucified: "I was framed . . . Maybe that lawyer Judas can swing it. Otherwise I've had it ... The Roman fuzz bugged me all night. They didn't like my sandals and beard...
Back home, the kid suddenly remembered the box trap he and his dad had set in the woods at Deep Springs. What if a rabbit got caught in it? Nobody would let him out and he would starve to death. The boy was so sick about the rabbit that Eddie realized he would lose his son's respect, not to mention his own self-respect, if he did not go back and let it out. But the boss was in such a flap about the job that Eddie was afraid to take the day off and make the trip...
...book has 96 pages and 47 chapters, but more than half the space is blank. Chapter 47 is titled "Lord Chesterfield's Last Letter to His Son," and consists entirely of this message: "Dear Junior-Get lost-Dad." But as book stores closed last week, 42,500 copies had been sold, and Jack Douglas' My Brother Was an Only Child (Dutton; $2.50) made the bestseller lists for the ninth straight week...
...Tennessee Williams play. The plot of the movie largely depends upon the tragedy of misunderstanding; Jim Stark's parents misunderstand him; the same is true for Judy; Plato tries to forget his parents and adopts Jim as his father-image ("Why couldn't you have been my Dad?"); and, as usual, the police manage to misunderstand everyone...
...carrier flight instructor, as a test pilot helped develop a whole family of transonic jets: the Cutlass, the Fury, the Demon. Most recent assignment: test pilot for the new Mach 2 F4H McDonnell fighter. Last week Schirra's son, Marty, 8, chortled to his third-grade classmates: "My Dad is going on a rocket to the moon!" Replied a friend nonchalantly: "Have him bring me back a piece of green cheese...