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Word: lightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assure you the incident was no farce, but your reporting put three heroic people in a ridiculous light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1959 | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Henry IV has its inalienable glories, which frequently light up the Adams House production even when the Fat Knight is offstage. But while these have been and will be available elsewhere, there is no telling whether Mr. Seltzer will ever play Falstaff again after next Tuesday. Miss him at your own risk...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Henry IV, Part I | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...inspirational moment suggesting what might have been done with the show: the king asks for some hot chocolate, and the stage is immediately inundated with his entire retinue, led by four flamenco dancers, in a hilarious parody. But this, and a few other isolated touches, were the only light spots in a generally strained evening...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: King Pausole | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, said "I feel very strongly that the report is obviously the result of a good deal of study on the part of responsible undergraduates and gives House staffs a chance to take their bearings in the light of undergraduate opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masters Praise Study on Houses | 4/10/1959 | See Source »

...which gets such a good shake from Wilder's direction, concerns the flight of two musicians, played by Tony Curtis and Harvard's Own Jack Lemmon, from certain liquidation by Chicago mobsters. Witnesses to a gangland slaying reminiscent of the St.Valentine's Day Massacre, the disguised Curtis and Lemmon light out for Miami with an all-girl band. As gents of lusty instincts, the proximity to pulchritudinous musicians strains their ambition to remain disguised, but somehow they persevere. Curtis eventually executes some fancy footwork to win Miss Monroe, and despite every effort to avoid it, Lemmon wins Joe E. Brown...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Some Like It Hot | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

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