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Word: duel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operetta addicts are beginning to pretend that there really is not so much difference between the old and the new. Said one dreamy rationalizer: "I can see it all. Let's say Frank Butler is really a Hungarian cavalry officer who had to leave his country-some disgraceful duel over an actress. Annie is really the daughter of a millionaire Chicago meat packer. Call the whole thing The Duchess of Chicago and we'll feel right at home again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Siegfried Get Your Annie | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...contrast to the Eliot-Dunster "A" game, the Funsters' "B" team beat Eliot in a game marked by very few personal fouls. This was the result of a set-shooting duel between the two teams, as both hit well from the outside and did not drive in for layups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Quintets, Hockey Teams Meet | 3/5/1957 | See Source »

Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Duel, with E. G. Marshall in a drama about the feud between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton (color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...year allowance from an indulgent uncle. Still in his teens, he ran guns for the Carlist forces in Spain, ran into debt, had an affair with a mysterious femme fatale called Rita. An absurd expatriate from North Carolina named Captain Blunt shot and wounded Conrad in a duel over that lady's honor. For no better reason than that he liked the cut of an English jib, Conrad took off for life with the British merchant service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pole with British Tar | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Ernie Kovacs, 38, is the one television comedian who finds most of his tee-hee in TV itself. He is a big (6 ft. 2 in., 200 Ibs.), messy, cigar-frazzling buffoon who uses cameras, sets, sound effects to make rowdy electronic fun. He may duel and play poker with himself or shoot a hole through his head and blow smoke through it. Once he appeared to viewers inside a huge bottle, holding an umbrella to keep off the rain. He was slowly submerged, then he tapped the bottle with a hammer; and glass, water and Kovacs spilled onstage. Curling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Utility Expert | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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