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Word: madams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other movies which were mentioned are "Hondo," "Torch Song," "Call Me Madam," "Easy to Love," "I, the Jury," "Salome," "How to Marry a Millionaire and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poon Criticism Provokes Attack | 3/12/1954 | See Source »

...gallery of portraits includes the affable murderer, a respected but degenerate lawyer, who kills and mutilates his 19-year-old maidservant; the murder suspect, an apelike beast, who is really as engaging as he is simple, although he did try to rape, of all people, the madam of the establishment at No. 15, Street of the Little Nuns; the police sergeant, who acts the cop but cannot understand why he has devoted 30 years of unflagging vigilance to maintaining order; the doctor, who thinks love is the source of everything but hates an entire family because the father seduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Murder Gallery | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

...Just a minute, madam," came the apologetic response, "I'll connect you immediately with Mr. Rhinchart of baby supplies...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: Lowell House Roebuck | 1/14/1954 | See Source »

...Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox). Ethel Merman's wonderful brassy voice and personality sparkplug the film version of her Broadway musical hit (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CHOICE FOR 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...stars this time were also more propitious. Madam is a light philosophic fantasy, about equidistant between Saroyan and Thornton Wilder, yet with a flavor and philosophy of its own. It tells how, from a sense of guilt, Mary Doyle, the heiress daughter of "a Tammany grafter who died in Sing Sing," has turned recluse. Into her parlor steps persuasive Dr. Brightlee, whom the audience has no trouble identifying as the Devil. But this devil is for the most part on the side of the angels-on the side, at any rate, of the world's artists and individualists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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