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Word: irises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warm Peninsula is a comedy, of course, and often funny. But the humor is in an aged gag-line form. (Iris Floria, an aged silent-screen siren, admits that she still takes milk baths. "But milk is so expensive now that I use Starlac!') The plot does not contain an...

Author: By Carl PHILLIPS Jr., | Title: Warm Peninsula | 10/2/1959 | See Source »

Timbering Up. In Houghton, Mich., Iris Ann Johnson explained that she had killed her lumberjack husband during a "game we played when we were drinking. He would run around the yard while I shot at him with a .22-caliber rifle."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

Timbering Up. In Houghton, Mich., Iris Ann Johnson explained that she had killed her lumberjack husband during a "game we played when we were drinking. He would run around the yard while I shot at him with a .22-cal. rifle."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

THE BELL (342 pp.)-Iris Murdoch-Viking ($4.50).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Tolls, but for Whom? | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

This is conceivably the only novel ever written in which a boy tries to seduce a girl in a recumbent church bell. The would-be lovers fail, but that is because the clapper gives off a frightful clang that scares them both frigid. All of this will come as no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Tolls, but for Whom? | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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