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Word: medievales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The people of medieval Yvetot dethrone their king. Then the women find that their menfolk are too busy running the state to work their land or flatter their wives. So they rebel and restore the king. Meantime, the king does his bit by making love to a serving girl, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The King of Yvetot | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

"Jip," promised the Guernsey editor, "will break this medieval monopoly about the keeping of bitches on Sark." He splashed Rand's story on his front page and awaited developments. They were not long in coming. Sark's constables showed up at Rand's house, told him curtly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Medieval Monopoly | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Lancaster is probably the best acrobat now employed as an actor. After a series of gangster films, he obviously relishes his promotion from a hood to a Robin Hood. But dialogue still throws him, and his modern side-mouthings ("I'll meetcha inna tavern") sound a little disenchanting in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 31, 1950 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Two-thirds of the way around the three-lap course, right in front of the medieval town hall, it happened that Pietrino came shoulder-to-shoulder with the rider for a ward he had once deserted. Pietrino suddenly found himself clamped against the inside rail, was knocked off his horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vendetta on Horseback | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

U.S. theater managers complain that Hollywood gives good pictures misleading titles. In their trade magazines, the box office men have pointed out that All the King's Men leads some moviegoers to expect a medieval costume piece. Annie Get Your Gun? It sounds like a war picture about women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Better Titles? | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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