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Word: rhymed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slob. If someone smokes and gets cancer, we say, 'Good, there goes another smoker.'" While many tobaccophobes maintain that their aim is to "educate" smokers, they have not in the past been noticeably successful-as witness a turn-of-the-century campaign to censor a nursery rhyme because Old King Cole "called for his pipe." In a fit of moral fervor, the town fathers in Longboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: SMOKING: FIGHTING FIRE WITH IRE | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...from a production which admirably omits little else--of Portia's song "Tell me where is fancy bred..." This song is not an ornamental time-waster but an essential piece of narrative; it enables Bassanio to choose the right casket (the one made of lead) by listening to the rhyme-words--"bred," "head," "nourished." Perhaps Portia couldn't sing...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: What Ho! on the Rialto | 11/19/1975 | See Source »

...three sisters look like they have wandered out of an unsuccessful nursery rhyme. Auntie Pasta's striking pallor is accentuated by her puddle-blue coat and Auntie Awful is dourly dressed in pea green and black. Raima Evan's coy voice, which seems to pass through a kazoo, brings out the meddlesome but well-intentioned manner of Auntie Tomato...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Blather | 11/15/1975 | See Source »

...IDIOSYNCRATIC guests snowbound in a manor house outside of London with their nervous host and hostess, an unsolved murder mystery, the haunting refrain of a childish nursery rhyme--these are the ingredients Agatha Christie uses to bait The Mousetrap. A lot of people have been snatching up the bait; the show has broken box office records, running 23 years on the London stage...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Cheese Without Holes | 11/6/1975 | See Source »

Answer to Boring Quiz in Rhyme: Bob Bateman, in his dreams...

Author: By Thomas Aronson, | Title: Tom Columns | 10/4/1975 | See Source »

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