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Word: romps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, audiences have hailed Skin ever since. Cried the New York Times's persnickety Brooks Atkinson, dean of Broadway's critics, "Perfect.'' Rejoiced the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Perhaps even the theater will survive.'' Thornton Wilder's wild and wise romp is now fast making up the $73,000 deficit incurred by Salute. Best news of all: Salute should be completely out of the red after the U.S. at large gets its chance to see The Skin of Our Teeth as an NBC-TV Spectacular, Sept. 11,7 130 p.m. E.D.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Skin, New Vim | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...Seven Year Itch. Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy an engaging romp (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...Western world. Visually, the picture could scarcely be better. The camera's Cyclopean eye stares deep into the Minoan age that has come down only in legend and a few tantalizing shards from Peloponnesus and Crete. Misty islands float in a magic wide-screen sea, naiads romp along the water's edge, enchantresses lurk in sacred groves, galleys roll and toss on angry waves conjured up by Poseidon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...Seven Year Itch. Though the ads promise more fun than the picture delivers, Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy an engaging romp (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Seven Year Itch. Though the ads promise more fun than the picture delivers, Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell help Director Billy Wilder make George Axelrod's comedy a fairly engaging romp (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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