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Word: greenes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hardened Criminal. In New Orleans, police searched in vain for Burglar Willie Green, who had broken into a grocery, until he emerged voluntarily from a 32° refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...sticking out of the sheet that covered his body, Ole Earl held a press conference from his motel bed, told reporters why his frightened wife, Blanche, was seeking a divorce. "Jealousy brought this on,1' he explained. "She wanted to be Governor." But Blanche had no cause for green eyes: "How can an old man take care of three or four women? I'm 63, going on 64, and when you get to be 64, you'll know what I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Long Count | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...arrival of democracy last week in Nepal's capital of Katmandu had a Himalayan flavor all its own. After an endless, crowded tea party on the green lawn of the royal palace, the new Cabinet finally assembled an hour before midnight in a palace hall dimly lit by five huge chandeliers (Katmandu is often short of electric power). Advised by his court astrologers that the time was right, King Mahendra, 39, rose from his silver and red velvet throne and swore into office Prime Minister B. P. Koirala and 19 other ministers. Then everyone present raced across town through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEPAL: Democracy Comes at Midnight | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...perhaps a dozen nightclubs across the country-from Manhattan's Den to Chicago's Mr. Kelly's to San Francisco's hungry i-audiences paid stiff prices to soak it up. For the "sick" comedians, life's complexion has never looked so green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: The Sickniks | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...good deal of credit must go to the ancillary contributors. Will Steven Armstrong has designed the scenery, with some translucent green-and-tan drops; his solution for changing the scene to Herne's oak for the masque finale is highly ingenious. In fact, never before, it seems, has the Festival stage been employed by the directors with such virtuosity and flexibility. Much humor derives from the outlandish costumes designed by Motley. Mistress Ford wears an outfit of incompatible orange and mauve; and when it is side by side with Mistress Page's fuchsia one, the combination is an awful eyesore...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Merry Wives of Windsor | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

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