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Word: dustman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sparkle among the cast is Joshua Milton as Alfred P. Doolittle. Milton stares bug-eyed above the audience most of the time, but he cavorts and mugs with such ungainly enthusiasm and impious confidence that Santa Claus would envy him. Milton transforms the dustman into such a teddy bear you want to squeeze him and forget about his unsavory scruples...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: My Frumpy Lady | 11/8/1979 | See Source »

...wouldn't marry anyone I didn't love whether he were the dustman or the King of England." According to Sarah, Charles is a "romantic who falls in love easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Man Who Will Be King | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...tune that counted and the words hardly mattered. But they clearly do matter to many Australians, and the choice of the new anthem seemed to unleash the country's lyrical genius. One sardonic proposal, set to the tune of My Old Man's a Dustman, came from Phillip Adams, who writes a satirical column for a Melbourne paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: A Song to Forget | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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