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Word: ly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best-as when she and her accompanist, Reginald Beane, freewheeling-ly get together over Lady, Be Good-At Home with Ethel Waters is delightful. But the part proves greater than the whole. The star offers more than 20 numbers, in a program that mingles the atmosphere of the nightclub, the concert stage and Broadway without achieving the full flavor of any of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Shows in Manhattan, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...been wasted away by the sons of rich men to give truth to the saying: "From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three gen erations." No one had a better chance to make this saying come true again than the Ford brothers, Henry, Benson and William, grandsons of the unpredictable, profound ly radical genius who began the age of mass production and created a billion-dollar empire out of a simple idea : "A car for the masses." By its balance sheet alone, the empire left at the end of World War II by Old Henry Ford to Henry, Ben and Billy-made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Rouge & the Black | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Other notable new recordings: all of Bach's English Suites played by Fernando Valenti (Westminster, 3 LPs); Kodály's Seven Piano Pieces, Op. 11, played by Ilona Kabos (Bartok Records); selections from Schumann's Piano Music, played by Andor Foldes (Mercury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, may 4, 1953 | 5/4/1953 | See Source »

Through the years, Ase sows his fields with wheat and reaps stones in his bread. His mother goes completely mad. His two best friends, a pixy of an Irishman and an ugh-ly Indian, die while helping him. His eldest son butters political palms for crooked contracts, and his youngest is killed at Chateau-Thierry. Even the crops fail, and he has to peddle firewood from door to door. One last chord of longing keeps Ase playing at life: he wants to see his brother Ben before he dies. At the age of 80, he does. He finds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ase's Agonies | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...Thomas Fairchild but trailing both Ike and Governor Walter Kohler Jr.). In Minnesota, Ike was 5,600 votes ahead in St. Paul, which gave Tru man a majority of 40,000 in 1948. Even Adlai Stevenson's Illinois had fallen. Ike jumped into a narrow lead, cutting sharp ly into Stevenson's expected majority in Chicago and rolling up so decisive a ma jority downstate that Democratic Boss Jake Arvey conceded before midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Election Night | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

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