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...grandmother, and known to be at least seventy-six. But she has triumphantly made good their gamble. Her forthcoming movie version of Lolita, to be called I Was a Teenage Nymphet, will be eagerly awaited. For Miss Glench is charming. Miss Glench is beautiful. Miss Glench is neatsie-poo. She sings like a nightingale, and she looks like one too, with the neatest little set of tailfeathers you could ever hope to see. Miss Glench, will you live in sin with...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Girl in a Hole | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...think that your 'Poo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIES OF A VANQUISHED AMERICAN | 11/21/1958 | See Source »

...Manhattan as Central Park. Host Alistair Cooke showed up in skimmer, foulard scarf and blazer, to talk about the wonders of aluminum (spelled A-1-u-m-i-n-i-u-m, Ltd.). Bert Lahr, a mighty available Jones around all channels these days, blinked and "poo-poo-pa-dooed" through some excruciating jokes ("Are you Ivy?" "It's crawlin' all over me") and brayed his inimitable full-octave singing quaver. Digging into Broadway's attic of old goodies, Omnibus borrowed Lend an Ear's funny, picture-hatted Gladiola ("Skiddy, give me some hooch") Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...imposing Lowell, were published, and discussion immediately raged regarding the aesthetic quality of the towers atop each of the Houses. The Lowell tower was generally approved, but the Italian Renaisance quality of the Dunster spire was frowned upon by many in the College. Boston architect William Aldrich poo-pooed this unenlightened criticism, asserting that Lowell and Dunster "will be by far the best buildings architecturally in the University...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Class of '32: First Two Years | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Last week the Educational Alliance celebrated the renovation of its building. With more than 6,poo members, the old settlement house is straining at the seams. New clubrooms have been burrowed under the sidewalk of East Broadway. Cots for the nursery are piled high in half a dozen classrooms. But the Alliance's purpose is the same as it was in the days of its first fund-raising fair: "The moral and intellectual improvement of the residents of the East Side of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: East of the Bowery | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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