Word: lowdownness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week went a book which its publishers trumpeted as an alltime bestseller. There was a seed of truth in the claim. The first printing of 125,000 had been snapped up by booksellers in advance of publication date. The book, U.S.A. Confidential (Crown; $3.50), was blurbed as the real "lowdown" on sex, crime and politics in the U.S. But for newsmen, politicos and other early readers of the book, it was more sharply described by the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, which called it the most "scurrilous . . . outrageous and libelous collection of garbage we have ever seen in print...
Guys and Dolls. Delightful lowdown musical about Broadway's floating crap games and the Damon Runyon babes who need new shoes (TIME...
Guys and Dolls. Delightful lowdown musical about Broadway's floating crap games and the Damon Runyon babes who need new shoes (TIME...
Where did they all come from-the familiar names and faces which populate the world's nurseries and schoolrooms: the Little Jack Homers, the Georgie Porgies, the old women who live in shoes? Last week Britain's grown-ups were getting the scholarly lowdown from an authoritative reference book: the Oxford University Press's new Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes...
Would I Love You (Love You, Love You). Helen O'Connell starts sweet and ends lowdown in her version of one of the newest heart-on-sleeve songs (for Capitol...