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Word: dol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comedy is set in plague-ridden London where a gentleman has fled the city and left his house in the care of his steward, Face (Robert Symonds). False Face teams up with a charlatan of alchemy named Subtle (O'Sullivan) and a trollop, Dol Common (Nancy Marchand). This trio of con artists gull the gullible - clerks, widows, fortune hunters such as Sir Epicure Mammon (George Voskovec), and hypocritical Puritans. As written by Jonson, the play has the shapely precision of a ballet, wittily danced to the themes of vanity, greed, cunning, lust and fraud. As directed by Jules Irving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pickpocketing a Classic | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

When the U.S. ran out of silver dol lars a year and a half ago, it meant only one thing for Nevada's gambling casinos: snake eyes. Gone were the traditional silver-dollar slot machines, the familiar clank of "cart wheels," the bulging pants pockets. At least until onetime Adman Joseph Segel came on the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Hi-Ho, Silver! | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...adopted in 1934 to thwart Nazi spies hunting German assets that had fled and were hidden abroad. Later Geneva was regarded as the financing center for both extremes in the Algerian war-the French O.A.S. and the Algerian F.L.N. Today some U.S. officials believe that the banks shield dol lars that have evaded U.S. taxes and foreign aid funds diverted by grafters in underdeveloped nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: The Gnomes of Zurich | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...nation's storekeepers, many of whom had not seen much change at the cash registers in the first few weeks after the reduction. Said James Bliss, counsel for the National Retail Merchants Association: "All of a sudden, merchants seem to be unified in the belief that the extra dol lars are finding their way into stores all down the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: How They're Spending Their Tax-Cut Money | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...Dymo Scoop. Why was it born at all? Advertising is a multibillion-dol-lar industry-but that sum measures what advertisers spend, not what Madison Avenue takes home in the form of a 15% commission. The nation's 3,500 ad agencies employ 64,000. But that figure is exceeded by the U.S. population of doctors, lawyers, bankers, pharmacists and bakers-none of whom can claim a single newspaper column devoted to their professional activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Navel-Gazing in Wasteland | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

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