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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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All at Sea. Aboard the S.S. Caliban, bound out of Liverpool for Rangoon, things get worse. The lascar stewards curse foully-yet only Pinfold seems to hear. Something, he thinks, is wrong with the ship's ventilating gear; by some acoustic or electrical freak, he hears conversations, snatches of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-inflicted Satire | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Most horrifying of all (to a novelist), Pinfold hears a man called Clutton-Cornforth reviewing his books on the BBC: "The basic qualities of a Pinfold novel . . . may be enumerated thus: conventionality of plot; falseness of characterization; morbid sentimentality; gross and hackneyed farce alternating with grosser and more hackneyed melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-inflicted Satire | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Estelle Winwood recreates delightfully her original fluttery Broadway portrayal of Mme. Constance, the Madwoman of Passy, who keeps an imaginary pet dog and won't open her door unless a caller knocks twice and meows thrice. Maureen Hurley is amusing as the chaste Mlle. Gabrielle, the Madwoman of St. Sulpice...

Author: By C. T., | Title: The Madwoman of Chaillot | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

Oklahoma's burly, scrappy Robert Samuel Kerr is a Democratic multimillionaire (Kerr-McGee Oil) who snap-shoots from the hip when he hears a rustling in the brush. Indiana's jowled Homer Earl Capehart is a Republican millionaire (Capehart radio-TV) who usually prefers to wait for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Brain Storm | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

The Australian public, forever haunted by fear of drought, has followed Bowen's program with enthusiastic appreciation. When a long dry spell last month threatened to ruin wheat planting in the Darling Downs district of Queensland, the parched farmers clamored for Bowen's rainmakers. He sent airplanes reluctantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Careful Rainmaker | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

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