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Word: donkey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...test, which promised to be the sternest of all. Girding for the battle, 6,000 Democratic leaders assembled in Washington and paid half a million dollars t01) consume pink grapefruit, celery & olives, filet mignon, baked potatoes, string beans, domestic Burgundy and ice cream molded in the form of a donkey, 2) honor Jefferson and Jackson, and 3) hear what their leader, Harry Truman, the improbably successful man with the common touch, had to say about the party's future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Exit Smiling | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...Personals were started in 1932 by Poet Louis Untermeyer, who wanted to sell a pet donkey. He sold the beast so quickly through an S.R.L. ad that other readers began inserting bright ads for old books, jobs and pen pals. Palship sometimes ripened into marriage. Lecturing in Tulsa once, Editor Norman Cousins was joyfully kissed by a young woman who gurgled that she had met her husband through a Saturday Review Personal; he had lived only four blocks away all the time. One woman who asked for male mail and signed herself "Oil Widow," was deluged with 800-odd letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Strictly Personal | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...great man and a boon to the nation, Lanza drank deep of fame-and promptly became intoxicated. He announced that he was preparing to graft new limbs on infantile-paralysis victims. Soon, he declared, he would show preliminary examples of similar radical grafts, including a goat with donkey's legs, a sheep with dog's legs, a chicken with a pigeon's head, a dove with rabbit's ears and a rabbit with dove's wings. No gonkey, shog, or picken turned up, but Lanza did give newsmen a brief, none-too-close look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Graft Expert | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

...John's' donkey cart. I swear ONE is the best Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: William Wheelwright '01 Writes Poetic History of Class Dinners | 12/21/1951 | See Source »

...diners began to crowd in, the orchestra--a trumpeter, drummer, pianist, and an accordian player--accompanied their progress with some thumpy renditions of familiar tunes. One of the selections was the "Donkey Serenade," but the Republicans did not seem to notice this. But at 7:14 the head table of dignatories began to march in, and to the tune of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here," Charles Francis Adams, Sinclair Weeks, Senators Saltonstall and Lodge, Robert Montgomery, and Senator Richard M. Nixon of California, among others, took their places...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 11/15/1951 | See Source »

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