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Word: musi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last of the liberty-loving U.S. celebrities to turn up in Cuernavaca was Musi-comedienne Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman. She blew into town just as the divorce gates were closing. But a local official in Juarez, a quick-divorce city in Chihuahua on the Rio Grande, came to the rescue. He assured her by telephone that she would be welcome in Juarez and would get "prompt and satisfactory service." So Ethel went to Juarez, and found that the service there was still prompt indeed; within 48 hours she had a divorce from Hearst Executive Robert D. Levitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Dismantled Mill | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

...most part, Seventeen cultivates an air of the good old summertime. The people being young and the medium musi-comedy, there is naturally a great deal of dancing-all rather pleasant, all much alike. But the main reason why Seventeen never really clicks in musical form is that there is neither body nor soul to its music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jul. 2, 1951 | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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