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Word: itching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holder of U.S. Patent No. 2,850,023, Idaho's one-term (1944-50) Democratic Senator Glen H. Taylor, was in Manhattan at the headquarters of the business based on his invention-a no-itch, nonskid toupee. As president of Taylor Topper, toupee-topped Taylor, a veteran campaign guitar strummer and vice-presidential candidate of the pink-tinged Progressive Party in 1948, features before-and-after pictures of his own pate in his advertising, is now trying to set up Taylor Topper franchises across the U.S. Last week he allowed: "I'm not doing a land-office business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...Having found "four successive hit plays in corners of the commonplace overlooked by his fellow playwrights," wrote the Washington Evening Star, "Inge goes for a fifth in A Loss of Roses." ¶ Goodbye Charlie, bought for the movies while it was still rolling out of George (Seven Year Itch) Axelrod's typewriter, was a moneymaker before it went into rehearsal. All it needs now, as Author Axelrod sees it, is a new finish. Boasting the most improbable plot since the satyrical heyday of Thorne Smith, Charlie tells the story of a $3,000-a-week Hollywood writer (Charlie Sorell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Report from the Road | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...Clague came the assurance that the sharp swing upward in food prices only represented a seasonal phenomenon, but there was no suggestion of relief anywhere else. It was just like being pecked to death by gnats, observed a Los Angeles homeowner. "No single bite hurts too much, but you itch all over all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: You Itch All Over | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...soul bears the thumbprint of his ruthless wife Edith. She forces him to resign as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium because she wants to be a Washington hostess. Eventually, Britton decides that he, too, can be ruthless, and in fact, Edithless. Boldly following the urge that is the 27-year itch of many a marriage, he deposits $320,000 with discreet Swiss bankers, shaves off his mustache and his Harvard accent and, as plain old Llewellyn Jones, decamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Jul. 20, 1959 | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...stage the show has an intimate, itch-and-scratch-it folksiness that makes even the dull spots endearing. On the colossal Todd-AO screen. Catfish Row covers a territory that looks almost as big as a football field, and the action often feels about as intimate as a line play seen from the second tier. What the actors are saying or singing comes blaring out of a dozen stereophonic loudspeakers in such volume that the spectator almost continually feels trapped in the middle of a cheering section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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