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Word: funerall (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Billed as a "Serious Comedy," Period sounds more like a mad gothic anecdote. A couple of newly weds (Robert Webber and Barbara Baxley) drive up in a secondhand funeral limousine to the home of the groom's wartime buddy (James Daly). Left alone with the buddy, the bride ruefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFF BROADWAY: Tennessee Laughter | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Traveler's Aid. In Cuernavaca, Mexico, there is a funeral parlor called "Quo Vadis?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

These days, when getting a well-written letter in the mail is as rare as getting a refund from the tax collector, many readers will be happy to agree with Belloc's own estimate of himself. A self-described mixture of "Poverty, Papistry and Pugnacity," Belloc (who died in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: God's Grumpy Man | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

But in his words there is always the unmistakable feeling of the past, and one can't help feeling that here is a man viewing the tumult of the last decade as a man who looks upon his own funeral; a man whose life was swept away with a dead...

Author: By Richard E. Ashcraft, | Title: Look Back in Anger | 12/17/1958 | See Source »

In poetry he vaulted over the neat, syntactical fences and conventional forms of the past. He, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Esenin became Russia's three musketeers of modernity. Mayakovsky's poetry was like a shot in the streets. He became the Bolshevik poet laureate; but Big Brother'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Passion of Yurii Zhivago | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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