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Word: hooded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four players perform bravely, despite a script which is about as suspenseful as "Little Red Riding Hood." The Victorian setting provides the necessaries for melodrama: a heavily-draped living room, flickering candles, and a swinging chandelier. There are other timeless devices, such as nighttime storm and strange offstage noises which supplement the generally trite plot. Bail Langton's direction would be better appreciated if the play were a strong one. It is correctly slow-paced and would emphasize the tension that must be written in as really good melodrama...

Author: By Herbert S. Meyers, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/8/1950 | See Source »

...once immaculate parking place was covered with fox holes and the pup tents of the marines, who were heating their morning rations over small wood fires. There was only one link left with the past. In one corner of the lot, gutted and tireless, its once shiny hood and fenders burned a dull red, was the Buick. It still bore its diplomatic license plate: CDA 253. Evidently the Communists weren't able to start it, either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 9, 1950 | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...solution was found by Richard L. Purinton '52, pictured at left. A Moors Hall sophomore, Robin Hood Williams was quick to realize the plight of the undergraduate and rushed across the Square to practice for a possible Saturday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Protests Maids' Choice of Day Off | 9/28/1950 | See Source »

...Gallant Hood, by John P. Dyer. A penetrating biography of one of the most fearless and most rash of the Confederacy's commanders (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...pain of my eyes forgotten, immobile and scarcely breathing, my head bent forward till my eyes were scarcely above the lip of my trench, I watched him. This was no error, no trick of the night. This was a Hun-a living and spawning Hun, in snow suit and hood, crawling on his belly toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Way It Really Was | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

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