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Word: naturedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This apology turned the trick, and Vag's friend told him, with an air of good-natured condescension, not to miss a certain article in the July 6 New Yorker. Vag promised to look it up immediately and with that purpose in mind made his way towards Lamont.

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Notes From Underground | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

The ignominy began when ten students, dressed as pirates and armed with toy flintlocks, rowed over to the Bennington one cold dawn and simply marched up the gangway Without anyone's seeing them. Though they eventually ran into a few crewmen in the course of their wanderings, no one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Incident in Sydney | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

But if it quite lacks distinction, Bells comes off very nicely at its own Broadway level. Once started, it keeps moving; the tone is gay and good-natured, Jerome Robbins' staging is brisk, the Comden-Green lyrics are sprightly, the Jule Styne tunes are often schmalzy, and now and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

The favorite last week was a dark bay colt named Bold Ruler. "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, famed trainer of Nashua, had fond hopes of Bold Ruler's succeeding his retired champion. Calumet Farm was close to passing up the race. It had a leggy colt named Barbizon, who had won...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Green as Grass | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

Dogpatch, U.S.A. has jumped from the comic strips to the stage. Luckily Dogpatch loses little of its good-natured fun in the transition, even if the world of Li'l Abner becomes a bit more finite and less imaginative.

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Li'l Abner | 10/6/1956 | See Source »

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