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Word: dreaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...portion, cognac up to $2.25 a snifter. He wears custom-made suits from London and monogrammed shirts from Paris (though they do nothing for his built-in rumples). Asked his favorite color, Gunther beams: "Smoked salmon-Prunier's, of course, not Reuben's." Nor would Host Gunther dream of serving domestic champagne at his massive parties. For one gala, co-hosted at the Gun-thers' house by Claude Philippe of the Waldorf, liveried footmen carried scrolls to invite the 80 guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Insider | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...guests. As he dipped for contestants' postcards into a huge revolving drum, he made no secret of his disgust with his new giveaway "crap game" ("This is the silliest thing"), grudgingly granted wishes of winners (Easter outfits, a washing machine) until he reached the request: "My dream is to own a mink coat, size 12." Then for a brief moment Godfrey smoldered. "Mink coat!" he scoffed. "I'll get ya fieldmouse." But before the first week of his "new" program was over, Godfrey was acting just as bored as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...last year's Mille Miglia in Italy. Linda learned a lot, but last week she proved she was still no match for Brazil's brand of sportive millionaires, who rake in profits of 30% or 40% a year, laugh at income taxes and still have time to dream up practical jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Gentlemen Jokesters | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...moved him to rumble out a profound "Ye-e-a-ah!" For all its appearance of a tribal dance the occasion was a regular concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. The piece, entitled Concerto for Five Kettledrums and Orchestra, was an answer to a tympanist's dream: being liberated from his exile at the rear of the orchestra and placed out front as soloist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Concerto for Skins | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

With the practice of medicine becoming increasingly technical, some doctors dream of a day when an electronic brain might take the place of the physician in diagnosing obscure ills. Last week Dr. Winston H. Price told colleagues in the Johns Hopkins Medical Society of some toddling first steps toward developing such a wonderful widget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pushbutton Diagnosis? | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

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