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Word: hells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavy spender in New York toy stores. He was mourned last week, however, in a very narrow circle. Only Tough Tony gave any public display of grief. When a New York Daily News reporter called him and announced that Al had been shot to death, Tony said: "What the hell kind of a joke do you call that?" "It's no joke," said his informant. "Oh, my God," moaned Tony. "Oh, my God. No ... no ... no." He hurried to the hotel and threw himself, weeping hysterically, upon his brother's corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laughing Matter | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...ever listed to Symphony Sid will dig that immediately. For the uninitiated, "down-and-outers" may be offered as a synonym for "Beat Generation," albeit a weak one. Loosely defined, the term can be applied to almost anybody from 15 to 40 who thinks that things are in a hell of a mess so you might as well have a good time. IT is probably best described as an "ECTSTATICALLY Good Time," though the feeling is as hard to pin down as any mystical experience...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: Beat Generation's Busy Dissipation | 11/2/1957 | See Source »

Several members of the group are currently engaged in the HDC's Theatre Workshop production of Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," which will afterwards become the first play in their repertoire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Actors Form 'Cambridge Repertory' For Local Institutions | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born, a man−especially one from Kilkenny−went on a five-year drunk and finished by licking four cops, and then went home to raise hell because dinner was late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...between Billy Graham and Fred Allen." He cracks that he is "Lawrence Welk without music." Not far beneath his self-deprecating, unruffled exterior is a sensitive, often defensive man whose slight-looking build (6 ft., 174 Ibs.) shoulders a sizeable chip. Proclaiming his motto to be "Leave everybody to hell alone," Paar lives quietly with his second wife, a daughter, 8, and swimming pool in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. "I'm so lovable," Jack says. ". . . There have been all kinds of bets that I won't last. I told them if it is a miracle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Guy at the Office Party | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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