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Word: ong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Walter Ong, S.J., will conduct a seminar on "The Place of St. Thomas More in English Literature" in Room 601 in Lamont Library at 8:30 p.m. tonight. This is the first in a series of seminars intended to present specialized aspects of Catholic tradition and culture to Harvard audiences this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Priest Leads Thomas More Seminar Tonight | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Socially, the President of the Philippines had his fill. In the U.S. for a five-day flying visit, President Elpidio ("Pidi-ong") Quirino was met at National Airport by Harry Truman and a 21-gun salute. He spent a night at Blair House, addressed the House and Senate, whirled through Washington cocktail parties into a ticker-tape welcome in New York, where he lunched with Cardinal Spellman and picked up an honorary doctorate from Fordham. Said he of steaming Manhattan: "The weather ... is very poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Empty Hands, Full Heart | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...grid Ksantel ong ong . . . What'd he say? . . . Mumbles says we've got to get rid of Kiss Antel right away." There was a knock on the door. With a reluctant sigh I put down my bound volume of Dick Tracy, muttered "Wait a minute," and tossed off the last swallow of a pre-season Tom and Jerry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tracy's Protegee Mmbls to Sdgwck On Holiday Issue | 12/12/1947 | See Source »

Nonsense, says Ong. Wonder Woman is only a female Superman, preaching "the cult of force, spiked, by means of her pretentiously scanty 'working' attire, with a little commercial sex. . . . When not in her outré 'working' clothes she habitually wears a suitcoat and tie among the jeweled guests at luncheon parties and at formal evening affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Are Comics Fascist? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...Walter Ong finds Wonder Woman sexy, but "this is not a healthy sex directed toward marriage and family life, but an antisocial sex, made as alluring as possible while its normal term in marriage is barred by the ground rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Are Comics Fascist? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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