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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last night the Radcliffe Idlers gave us a chance to look into the Hell of Jean-Paul Sartre...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

...just stayed. His unique approach to ragtime piano and his remarkable repertoire have kept him popular. Customers at Condon's, once wont to chat through intermission piano and save their attention for the antics of Bruins, now treat the band with a conversational scorn but restrain themselves to gentle hell taps while Sutton experiments between sets...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: JAZZ | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

...Clifton, N.J. was piled high with broadsides, and almost every evening embattled Secularists were coming in to help mail out a special appeal for funds. Said McCarthy happily: "Nobody gets paid for this, you understand. We're all charity workers here-and we're giving the Lord hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Secularists at Work | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...history seldom rises above the work of the better on-the-spot reporters. Future historians will read this big job, done with loyalty and likable gusto, only for passing footnotes and occasional colorful quotations (one pilot's description of the night battle in Mindoro Strait: "It looked like hell upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pacific Tale, Twice Told | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Number eight in his caravan of cartoon collections, Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter revives the gawking, girl-crazy old hell-raiser for a few sad appearances. He still lassoes his prey with diamond necklaces ("You certainly know my Achilles' heel, Mr. Benson"), buys yachts ("How many does it-er-sleep?"), invests in mink ("She got it by going 'brrrr' in front of Bergdorf's"). But what may be his final fling finds him corralled at last by a barbed-wire surtax: while his stern better half sits guard near by, the fat, fading Park Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shoo Shoo, Sugar Daddy | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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