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Word: jumbos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pharaoh Ikhnaton; The Judges of the Secret Court, about the events subsequent to Lincoln's assassination; and most recently, A Dancer in Darkness, a superbly gory retelling of the legend of the Duchess of Amalfi. Usually his books are brief and taut, and he is contemptuous of jumbo novels "for women who lie on sofas all day." But his best book, he feels, is a long novel about Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton. It is called Sir William, and will be published in England by Faber & Faber. Stacton's U.S. sales have been meager, and his American publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sustaining Stream | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

...Jumbo. Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye measure comic talents in this ponderous pachyderm of a picture-a $5,000,000 screen version of the 1935 Broadway musical. Jimmy wins by a nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 25, 1963 | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...Jumbo. Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye measure comic talents in this ponderous pachyderm of a picture-a $5,000,000 screen version of the 1935 Broadway musical. Jimmy wins by a nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Jan. 18, 1963 | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...Jumbo. Broadway's elephantasy of 1935, pumped full of Metrocolor, comes to the screen as a "pulchatoobinous pachadoim" of a picture-anyway, that's the way Jimmy Durante says it, and in this picture Jimmy himself is 100% right. Martha Raye is 99% right. And Doris Day is Doris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jan. 11, 1963 | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...Jumbo. Broadway's elephantasy of 1935, pumped full of Metrocolor, comes to the screen as a "pulchatoobinous pachadoim" of a picture-anyway, that's the way Jimmy Durante says it, and in this picture Jimmy is 100% right. Martha Raye is 99% right. And Doris Day is Doris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Dec. 28, 1962 | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

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