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Word: duryea (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arnold Laven), carefully acted. Dan Duryea, as the mouthpiece for the indicted hoods, is as tricky as watered silk, and Actor Egan shows himself, as usual, a competent actor of a popular Hollywood type: the Neanderthal man in the Brooks Brothers shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...workshop packed into his Pittsburgh apartment; former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who makes his own furniture; TV and Radio Luminaries Desi Arnaz, Edgar Bergen and Fibber McGee, who spend their spare time puttering around with shelves and kitchen cabinets; Movie and Recording Stars George Montgomery, Perry Como, Dan Duryea and Jane Russell, who do their own handiwork, build boats and furniture; the Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, who is currently helping fellow airmen rebuild a private airplane, and has set up do-it-yourself workshops at SAC bases for everyone from airmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Shoulder Trade | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...adaptation written by Author Faulkner. Some changes had been made: the young man no longer kills himself, and his wife is no longer a tramp. The story emerged as a perfectly adequate but hardly startling half-hour's TV entertainment, starring Dan Duryea, Sally Forrest and Mildred Natwick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Blood | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...remind the cast that the audience usually likes to hear the lines that the author has taken the trouble to write?"), badgered and bludgeoned dozens of gawky students into becoming well-known actors and writers. Among them: Sidney Kingsley, Franchot Tone, William Prince, Dorothy Sarnoff, and Dan Duryea ("Strangely enough, he advised me not to become an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Messrs. Chips | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...years passed, many a farmer pumped small fortunes into the scheme. Some, like 65-year-old Sherman Duryea (who got "Ford" certificates supposedly worth $463,637) not only sank all their savings, but were drafted into promoting it. The swindlers gave Duryea four safes, told him they contained $85 million in cash, and instructed him to guard them with his life. Since he did not know they were stuffed with old newspapers, this made him a wonderful salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Great Ford Swindle | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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