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Word: misters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people at Marlboro feel that such a familiar relationship does not reduced the respect accorded to a man as teacher, for such respect is supposedly based on stronger things than the addition of a "mister" before a name. It would appear, however, that this is true more in the case of the top notch teacher than in that of the less able instructor...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss and Frederick W. Byron jr., S | Title: Marlboro College Prepares to Expand | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

...Kishi and his Cabinet, drove off in a gold-decorated black coach drawn by black horses, to lunch with the Emperor and Empress. (The first Australian parliamentarian to shake hands with Hirohito shortly after the war had been condemned in Australia for "a dastardly act.") Glowed the Japan Times: "Mister Menzies has proved himself a man of broad vision and deep understanding." But the Japanese soon found that mincing language is no part of Pig Iron Bob's equipment. Said Menzies: "I've come up here without any reservations, to talk to you as a complete Australian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Speaking in the Broad | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

...landing deep in trouble with the unions while building a house in Scranton. He was approached on the job by officials of the laborers', carpenters' and electrical workers' unions. Asked one: "Who the hell allowed you to come here to Scranton to build?" Replied Pozusek: "Mister, it so happens I am American-born, and I am allowed to earn a living in any part of this country as long as I earn it legally." Said the union official: "You will just pick up your tools and get the hell back to Wilkes-Barre, where you belong." Snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Ungentle Art | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...eggs, sir, and that is what a stink bomb smells like," she burbled. "Mr. Hubshman [Robert Hubshman, a Teamster slugger] and Mr. Brady [Philip Brady, business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Scranton] had discussed this with me, and I can't call them 'mister'-I am so used to calling them Bob and Billy and so on. Bob, he said to me, 'Wait until they try soap and water to clean that up.' Because, he said, 'Only ammonia will take it out and they will never think of ammonia. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Ungentle Art | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...party she took her shoes off and flipped a husky male reporter in Indian wrestling. To earn money on the side, she posed in the nude for adult art courses. Pitching for the Chronicle's male Softball team, she fell in love with the second baseman of a Mister Roberts road-company team, married him in 1953. The marriage lasted one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tomboy with a Typewriter | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

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