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Word: lorde (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Randy (scowling): Yes, I know, Lord Erne. It's a word like "send to Coventry," but it seems to be escaping me. Can you give me a clue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $128 Bust | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...vision?" And when he replied that he did she began seductively to disrobe herself. And then she asked him once more, "Do you still see the vision?" "I can no longer see it. The vision has fled in bashfulness at our intimacy." "Then rejoice," cried Khadija, "for by the Lord it was an angel and no devil that you have beheld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Battle of the Book | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...Europe with 34 pieces of luggage including 60 complete changes of costume plus a custom-made $15,000 glass-topped piano. Meanwhile, Author Philip (Generation of Vipers) Wylie, unregenerate enemy of "momism" and of Liberace as "mom's darling boy," muttered darkly that Liberace is "a superannuated Little Lord Fauntleroy. When he came to Miami, I was going to round up every guy with any masculinity, and we were going to stone that guy to death with marshmallows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 1, 1956 | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...season's first spectaculars and a barrage of premières fell on TV screens last week like a soggy September drizzle. In Bretaigne Windust's The Lord Don't Play Favorites on NBC's Producers' Showcase, a Kansas hick town was caught in a drought. A bankrupt circus only made matters worse by praying for a dry track on which to run its trick horse. The Lord let it rain and the horse won anyway, but as musical theater the whole carnival romp was a washout. Recording Artist Kay Starr's anvil voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...this point Author Kendall succeeds in giving Richard a clean sheet. He is unable to continue doing so, for the simple reason that clean sheets were virtually unknown in 15th century England -which had reached about the same stage of political ethics as Russia is enjoying today. Lord Protector Richard arrested and executed his brother's advisers. Conveniently, a friar preached a sermon on the ominous text: "Bastard slips shall not take root," whereupon Richard declared his brother's children illegitimate, and took the throne himself. For a short time, the little prince and his brother were seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Average Brute | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

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