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Word: masseurs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth floor houses four squash courts, a tennis and squash supply shop, lockers, a television room, dressing rooms for commuters, and shower rooms. The other two squash courts are on the seventh floor along with the gymnasium, steam room, masseur, and 12-bed dormitory, used when the bedrooms are filled...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Harvard Club of New York: Social Focus for the Locals | 1/8/1957 | See Source »

...unnumbered undershirt and baggy slacks, the pudgy, 49-year-old Spaniard looked more like a masseur than an ath lete. Felix Erauzquin picked up a javelin, held it behind his back, spun around twice, and let it go. The javelin traveled 273 ft. 6 in.-only nf in. short of the world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Javelin Made Easy | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...rings a few changes on that tired radio perennial, the evening mystery show. Based on a character created by Whodunit Writer Craig Rice, Malone deals with a Chicago criminal lawyer whose avowed hobby is "collecting cliches." Malone has other off-beat mannerisms: he avoids fights, employs a masseur, and dislikes guns because "they remind me of weddings." Currently unsponsored, Malone had some fast-paced dialogue by Scripter Eugene Wang, is packed with such novelties as an effeminate gunman, a strait-laced gambler fretting about his daughter's morals, a policeman who was on the right track from the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...winner's rewards: $300 a week, stardom as Tamba, and tier own masseur (since chimps have sluggish blood circulation, the A.S.P.C.A. requires that chimp actors get a good rubdown after swimming scenes). Otherwise, the new star's life will be no tied of orchids. All her money will not even buy her a square meal-she must be kept hungry during the working day, so that the lure of a banana or candy can be used to help along her acting talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Star Is Born | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...after a rubdown from the studio masseur, he takes a nap in a soundproofed chamber off his office. Awakened at 8, he dines at the studio, sometimes with Mrs. Zanuck or his French tutor (he has been studying French on the run ever since he was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1936), sometimes alone, staring grimly at a television set. At 9, he is looking at more rushes or rough-cut complete films. Then he gives instructions to cutters, producers and directors who join him in relays into the night. He sees everything that is put on film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: One-Man Studio | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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