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Word: dolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unmarried mothers). Most UMs are under 20, victims of a lie, or of violence, or possessors of an over-generous nature. One of the most tragic cases in St. Anne's history: a ravished child of eleven who still believed in Santa Claus and carried a rag doll to bed with her each night. For the rest, "we get a girl who has slipped," Sister Winifred says, "but who is trying to do what is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The 20-Hour Nuns | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

General Electric Theater (Sept. 26, 9-9:30 p.m.), an all-film show last year, starts off live with Nora, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Gene Tierney, Luther Adler, Patric Knowles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...response to "the resurgence of religious feeling and practice in America today,", the Ideal Toy Co. is putting on sale a kneejointed doll that can be made to "kneel in a praying position." <| Religious and economic booms in the postwar U.S. have brought no material gain to clergymen, the National Council of the Churches of Christ reports. Congregational ministers now average $3,313 a year (up from $1,769 in 1939) and United Presbyterian ministers $3,709 (up from $1,979). Allowing for inflation, says the council, the raises leave the ministers a few dollars a month behind where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...Jane Russell thinks that God is "a Livin' Doll," she is one step higher than those people who never get to know God. ALBERT C. ROTOLA Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

IMPUNITY JANE, by Rumer Godden (Viking; $2.50), boasts one of the smallest heroines in recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Children's Hour | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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