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Word: hoss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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File 7 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). A double-gaited educational hoss that runs like a'critter out of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Confidential. The subject is Edgar Allan Poe-not his poetry and prose, but his alcoholism and drug addiction. Professor-Author (The Histrionic Mr. Poe) N. Bryllion Fagin conducts the inquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Oct. 27, 1958 | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...Paris with Audrey Hepburn (Love in the Afternoon) and Manhattan with Suzy Parker (Ten North Frederick). To celebrate the occasion, the producer has given him De Luxe Color and even a welcome home from one of the other characters, who says admiringly: "You look good back up on that hoss." At 57, Coop does look fine; it is the picture that needs to get up off its haunches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

Most Likely . . . (Dick Johnson, with Dave McKenna, piano; Wilbur Ware, bass; "Philly" Joe Jones, drums; Riverside). An alto saxophonist with wit and a springy, willow-green reed sound, Johnson bounces through a few of his own sunny fancies (Aw C'mon Hoss, Me 'n' Dave), gives fresh nuances to some twilit standards (It's So Peaceful in the Country, The End of a Love Affair). Among his best: a gusty frolic called Lee-Antics, which rings its intricate changes with geysering exuberance, builds to a stunning solo flight on the drums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Saddlesore Cowboy-Minstrel Gene Autrey and his music publishers collected $250 in damages from a Houston nightclub, whose comic was forbidden henceforth to drawl a vulgar tune titled 01' Gene Artery, a parody of 01' Gene's own theme that also slightingly mentioned his favorite hoss, Champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 10, 1958 | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

...horses which daily gallop across our TV screen [Jan. 6]. Some quick arithmetic rewarded me with the knowledge that my husband, now in his sixth year of teaching in a public high school, is earning almost as much as the cow ponies, mustangs and cayuses. My kingdom for a hoss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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