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Word: ralph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once he got down off his tiptoes, Smith began to hear noises he had not noticed before: gurgling water pipes, excessive coughing, the ringing of unanswered telephones, strange tappings. Using a homemade stethoscope, he traced the noises to the apartment of Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Mason directly below him. Smith sent an ultimatum to the Masons: they must keep reasonably quiet, "otherwise our relationship as neighbors will develop into open warfare." The Masons, without a pledge of quiet, asked Mr. Smith to explain. The only answer they got was noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of Bedlam | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...good-looking, good-for-nothing roughneck (Ralph Meeker), he comes among a widow who had married unwisely for love; her two daughters, one beautiful and besought (Janice Rule), the other bright and coltishly adolescent (Kim Stanley); her boarder, an old-maid schoolteacher with an unmatrimonial-minded beau; her next-door neighbor, a middle-aged woman chained to an invalid mother. The roughneck and the beautiful girl fall hard for each other: there is a climactic scene where they dance slowly and sexually, while the other women look on-awed, envious, aroused. The fellow is sent about his business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

Divorced. By Ruth Elder. 47, aviatrix of the '20s who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic (the first: Amelia Earhart, in 1928): sixth husband Ralph King, 54, cinema cameraman; after 1½ years of marriage; in Los Angeles, after she testified that he called her "a grey-headed old bag" and said he "wanted a young chick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...assisted Noyes, Crehore and Ralph Becket in the second period. Winkle Childs knocked in a Denny French rebound and Little scored unassisted for Yardling third period goals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cleary Shatters Yardling Record As Six Wins, 8-3 | 2/27/1953 | See Source »

...Ralph Sockman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,OBIT: Ring In the New | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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