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Word: lotharios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wash you up immaculate, da ta") in a café kitchen, Dishwasher Bert Lahr learned, that he had won an Irish Sweepstakes fortune. At last, he and his wife (Margaret Hamilton) could realize a great dream, "the one thing we both want most-a divorce." Instead, though, Lothario Lahr settled for a whirl at the posh Murmuring Sands Hotel and the charms of a predatory female who invites him skindiving. "You do snorkel?" she asked. "Oh, fluently," replied Lahr with outrageous, beady-eyed insouciance, and in a trice he has filled out a preposterous, knee-length bathing suit. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...looked as if three expert players could bring off the tender, sophisticated, 25-year-old Hungarian fantasy about a "little glowworm" usherette (Julie Harris) who wants to be a good fairy to a highly moral but impoverished lawyer (Walter Slezak), is pursued by an immensely wealthy but engagingly unethical Lothario (Cyril Ritchard), and winds up in the arms of her own true love. But in a quarter of a century, The Good Fairy has aged, and not even saucy playing could conceal the fact that the goulash has lost its paprika and the champagne that accompanies it has gone flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...novel. The story is prety funny too-if somewhat special. It is centered in suburban Connecticut, where a slightly adulterous bunch of New York writers, artists and editors repair from their labors to indulge their neuroses and libidos. Cartoonist Augie Poole is one of them, a 16-cylinder Lothario who knows how to operate on curves. Augie's wife can turn her"china-blue eyes on her husband like two gun barrels," but she loves him and they decide to make themselves a threesome by adopting a baby. It is not easy. Augie quickly learns that to meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Virtue of Vice | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...Films is on the lookout for a blonde dream-girl to appear in its newest production, "Project 109." It seems that this lady must stack up to the highest requirements of a lothario Lothario who seeks her in his sleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy Films Lays Dragnet for Blonde Magnet to Act in Epic | 5/17/1950 | See Source »

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