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Word: faraway (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Portland school board suddenly sat up and took notice. For one thing, the current Ladies' Home Journal was carrying an exposé of such societies that quoted a former Portland boy named Chuck Swanman. On "Hell Night" he had been taken to a faraway golf course "where the cops can't hear you yell," forced to drink a mixture of a searing hot sauce compounded with pepper and garlic and ordered to smoke a handful of cigars, inhaling every puff. After he vomited, the "hackers" went to work, whacked him 50 times with an inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High-School Hell | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Idler's Workshop group will give a one-actor entitled "The Faraway Princess" this afternoon in Agassiz Theater. The production gives Idler candidates a chance to show their talent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Picks Sartre's Play 'No Exit' For Fall Production; Cast Selected | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

Radcliffe's Idler players will open their season at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Agassiz Theater with a one-act offering entitled "The Faraway Princess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Club Workshop Offers One-Act Play | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

There was a faraway look in the marinated eye of a waiter at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. He leaned back against a plaster palm tree, listening to the liquid tones of the songstress running over the lyrics of Bali H'ai. A yokel at a side table dropped his fork. The waiter glared, snatched up the fork, jabbed a clean che at the customer, and sank back against his palm tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Melt Steel | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...welfare fund was likely to soar to $100 million and the union could make more money by putting it out in bank loans than by drawing interest on it as a deposit. But when newsmen asked Lewis if he was now a banker, all they got was a faraway look and a curt: "No comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Capital Mystery | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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