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Word: greener (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Claude Rains, as the wary French Prefect of Police, a "poor, corrupt official" who must work with the Gestapo, cannot decide whether French or German grass is greener, and so sits between on a sharp picket fence. As Victor Laslo, Paul Henreid plays a leader of various resistance movements who has eluded the Germans once too often; his acting shows what a man tortured in a concentration camp must endure...

Author: By Walter E. Wilson, | Title: Casablanca | 4/23/1957 | See Source »

...Greener Mansions. Late one night last week the winds, whipping across the tinder-dry, drought-grey brush and scrubland of the foothills, picked up a flicker of fire on the slope called Zuma Ridge. Instantly, a mass of blood-red flames burst forth like an explosion. Soon, the winds pushed the flames down the ridge toward the highway and the sea, then fanned the flames north and east, chewing up everything that lay in their path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Fire in the Wind | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Actually Boston's story is simple. Boston was first a part of the Atlantic Ocean. Gradually the ocean gave way to the North End, and cows came to feed on the greener, moister North End grass. Puritans shortly followed, anxious to turn cows into milk; and, pursued by Puritans, the cows wandered about the North End, laying out Boston's streets...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Boston: Pedestrian Impressions | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...before I knew it a blustery man breezed up on a motorized lawn-mower, and said, 'Hey, Mac, put on your shirt,' so I said, 'Listen, buddy, I got more clothes on than most people around here,' at which point he spun around his machine in search of greener laws to mow." We stuck in our shirt-tale and the mist thickened...

Author: By Gavin R. W. scott, | Title: Tombs, Trees and Corporate Profits | 10/24/1956 | See Source »

Maurice Evans, Ray Bolger and Elaine Stritch will star in 16 one-hour live shows called Washington Square, alternating with the Chevy Show's Dinah Shore and Bob Hope. Nanette Fabray, who left Sid Caesar for greener folding money, will star in High Button Shoes. Producer's Showcase will offer Somerset Maugham's The Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: And Away We Go | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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