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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marlowe's latest case drops into his arms when he props up a drunk outside an expensive Los Angeles nightspot. The drunk is a weak-willed chap named Terry Lennox who has trouble accepting the twin facts that his beautiful wife is a nymphomaniac and a millionairess. When she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder Is Their Business | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

The Metropolitan Opera faced an exhausting week. It began when the stagehands, who have worked for more than a year without a contract, failed to turn up for a rehearsal of Bellini's Norma. Members of the office staff sweated over heavy props and managed to get some of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tired & Happy | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Though it sometimes slows to a lecture-room pace, The Cobweb shows a nice ear for the spoken word and a good eye for the physical props of upper-middle-class life. Even its mixed-up characters might be fun to be with, if each did not so persistently regard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Trouble of One House | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

While its charm is impaired by a bitter denunciation of the sort of social "game" that must be played by rules, The Rules of the Game is still a comedy. Chase scenes and insinuating servants join other well-aged comic props, twisted by the Renoir touch into a clever and...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: The Rules of the Game | 3/2/1954 | See Source »

THE greatest program to provide J. dollar exchange for Europe since the Marshall Plan is the Offshore-Procurement Program. Through OSP, the U.S. buys war materials from European factories to equip NATO armies. In dollars, it amounts to far more than U.S. citizens spend through normal trade channels for Swiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS It a Godsend or a Giveaway? | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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