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Word: loused (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a characteristically flip and frank tactic. WANTED-A SUCKER LIKE I WAS, read his want ad in the Publishers' Auxiliary, a Chicago trade paper. Spayth's scheme: to hire someone willing to work as hard as he does, in return for a regular salary plus weekly lOUs that would be converted into a down payment on the paper. Spayth's condition: "The closing of title to take place 24 hours after my carcass cools off, with the balance due being secured by first mortgage in favor of my heirs, who do not want on a platinum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Until Death . . . | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Deductible. In Varese, Italy, thieves cracked the courthouse safe, made off with 10 million lire ($16,000) in lOUs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 7, 1958 | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...James M. Landis, former dean of the Law School, received a Brandeis medallion in Washington yesterday as part of the Lous D. Brandeis centennial observance. Dr. Abram L. Sachar, president of Brandeis University, made the presentation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landis Wins Medal | 11/16/1956 | See Source »

...Connecticut constituents of Republican Prescott Bush. Result: not only more time, but Bush's vote in the showdown. By accepting Republican Ralph Flanders' proposal to link the rate of housing starts to fluctuations in general business activity, Johnson won Flanders' vote. Then he cashed in lOUs with two other G.O.P. Senators, getting them to offset two of Johnson's absent Democrats by not voting themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Finger Dexterity | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

While Carne may think he is spoofing the British, he unconsciously does almost as good a job on the French, for his detectives are extremely nonchalant and his lovers strangely enthusiastic. Jean-Lous Barrault (the butcher of butchers) crawls on his kness in his ecstatic quest of a married woman; and he, as well as Jean-Pierre Aumont, the milkman, display the irrespressible smile that refuses to take life seriously. Although Chief Inspector Bray could appear in almost any country, the snooping vicar, played by Louis Jouvet, is far too sharp and sly for the English countryside. The Molyneux, however...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Drole de Dame | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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