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Word: naturedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mr. Simont is poking fun at those strange, histrionic, and sometimes absurd people who live in the world of opera. In his 60 black and white pictures he points up the absurdities of nine French, German, and Italian operas. A proper sense of reverence pervades the entire gallery, however, and...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxo, | Title: At the Met | 12/1/1950 | See Source »

During his early years in Hollywood, anyone who had predicted that he would end up as the rootin'-tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.* Boyd, an Ohio-born laborer's son, went to California in 1915 because he yearned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Evenhanded, even-tempered Leroy Wilson was not bothered by his picketing stockholders. Every stockholder, said he, had a right to speak his piece, and he agreed to give anybody up to ten minutes to say it. When the words of one stockholder provoked a scattering of yells, President Wilson rapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Crossed Wires | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Lindsay & Grouse's libretto is quite primitive as satire, and rather shameless (three of those phone calls to President Truman that are beginning to outnumber, on Broadway, the old Eleanor Roosevelt gags), but it is breezy and good-natured. George Abbott's direction is pleasantly breezy too; and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 23, 1950 | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Honduras' easygoing President Juan Manuel Gálvez has his own way of keeping close tabs on events in his sunny capital. A good-natured man who strolls the streets of Tegucigalpa unescorted, he takes time out for checker games with newsboys, swaps gossip with all comers. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONDURAS: Firm in the Saddle | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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