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Word: kiernan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inventor of "Shigalovism," he is a nihilist in action. His other activities include getting thrown out of the ladies' room of the U.S. embassy in a wild chase that bears a slight resemblance to poor Bloom's expulsion, "like a shot off a shovel" from Barney Kiernan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unblushing Bloom | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Holding the lengthy show together are Margaret Truman and Mike Wallace, acting as one team, and Martha Scott and Walter Kiernan as another. Crisply and in friendly fashion, they present a bit of everything-news, music, chatter, celebrities, cooking hints, cliff-hanger serials, fashion notes, lectures on human relations. To keep the women listening, NBC has well chosen its No. 1 team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Woman's Home Companion | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Family Circle (weekdays 3 p.m., ABC) is a collection of songs, verse, interviews and chatter, propelled through the wasteland of daytime radio by a glib and determinedly jolly M.C. named Walter Kiernan. Typical guest: Actress Sarah Churchill, who was allowed to tell the plot of her current Broadway show, Gramercy Ghost. In exchange, Kiernan asked how her father, Winston Churchill, felt about her becoming an actress ("he thought it was a whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

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