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Word: livin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jane Russell thinks that God is "a Livin' Doll," she is one step higher than those people who never get to know God. ALBERT C. ROTOLA Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1954 | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

Please never again dignify in print Jane Russell's flippant and too earthy observations concerning God: "He's a Livin' Doll" [TIME, June 28]. It is the most tasteless comment, theological or otherwise, that I have ever heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 26, 1954 | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Sweeney (Tues.-Fri. 7:30 p.m., NBCTV) stars Oldtime Cinemactor Charlie Ruggles as a small-town storekeeper who likes to chuckle out warm, homemade philosophical comments while his dowdy customers cluck around palpating tomatoes and cantaloupes. Happily, the 15-minute show steers clear of the heap-o'-livin' or Just Plain Bilge routine and stays easygoing and amusing. Item: Sweeney's young grandson, played by Glenn Walken, asks for a candy bar, then borrows a dime from Sweeney and rings it up on the cash register; this, says Sweeney, "keeps him honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 7/26/1954 | See Source »

...Heap O' Livin'. In Hartford, Conn., Salesman John Holmes, advertising in the Courant, offered to sell ". . . 40 acres of Pin Oaks and Black snakes. Old-world charm includes sagging floors, tortuous stairway and draughty fireplaces . . . Dandy opportunity to toughen up wife and kiddies ..." reported several nibbles the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 12, 1954 | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...marriage quite early. People did get married, of course, but it wasn't really necessary. Bambi, for example, lived a very good life indeed until a fanatical, strait-laced white lady persuaded him to marry one of his women. Until then, as Boy Blue related: "He wus livin' with Bots an' Bambina both all two at the same time, for a long, long time. An' they all had children for him. Bots had Puss in Boots Number Two an' Suck Me Toe, an' Bambina had three. Sugar Shine, Turtle Dove, an' Stumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Between Is Brown | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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