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Word: puffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Critic" stars Hurd Hatfield as Dangle, the aficionado of the theatre, and Jerry Kilty as Puff, the playwright. This pair mugs and gestures delightfully through a rehearsal of Puff's ludicrous tragedy, "The Spanish Armada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brattle Opening | 7/12/1951 | See Source »

...riverbed. Just short of Uijongbu, the column ran into trouble. Trying to bypass a tank trap, one Patton bogged down in a marshy field. Two more got stuck trying to pull it out. A fourth hit a mine; there was a deafening blast, a big puff of smoke and a cry over the radio: "Man wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Second Push Ahead | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...ordinary tact does when confronted with a shocking violation of the most elementary precepts of good taste: we ignored it. However, the reiteration of this ruttish broadside in today's CRIMSON suggests that the avowed feceophage has seized upon the advantage of wholesale rates to repeat his disgusting puff. Your threefold publication of this pornographic notice allows us no longer to remain silent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Stinks | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

After more than three years in Cinemogul Hughes's vaults, Vendetta has now been released, with an advertising splurge featuring Faith Domergue in a fetching décolletage (which never appears on the screen). The film is a solemn attempt to puff up the overblown passions of Colomba, Prosper Mérimée's novel of 19th Century Corsican intrigue. It will make many a moviegoer wonder what all the shooting and reshooting were about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 22, 1951 | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

While they were gone, at exactly 10:14, the ancient steam engine began to huff & puff, and without a human soul aboard, the little train slowly pulled out of Palace Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Train That Went | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

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