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Word: hebridean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writes of the life and death of ruling-class commandomen with the authority of one who took part in raids on Bardia in Libya and fought in Yugoslavia. His eye for the ridiculous still flashes quick as a pistol. He can still write crushingly of spivvish parvenus and loony Hebridean lairds. But the formerly ferocious satirist continues to broaden and deepen the fascinating experiment, begun in Men at Arms, of doling out uncertain portions of esteem and even affection to such characters as share his 18th century Tory's devotion to God, King and Country. As one result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Knighthood Deflowered | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

Tight Little Island. A British comedy, almost perfect of its kind, which applies character insight and cinematic ingenuity to the story of a whisky famine on a rugged Hebridean island (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Choice for 1950 | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Tight Little Island. A 100-proof British comedy about a whisky famine on a Hebridean island and how the inhabitants relieved it (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 20, 1950 | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Tight Little Island. A 100-proof British comedy about a whisky famine on a Hebridean island and how the inhabitants relieved it (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 13, 1950 | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Tight Little Island. A 100-proof British comedy about a whisky famine on a Hebridean island and how the inhabitants relieved it (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Mar. 6, 1950 | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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