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Word: rumoured (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things were never the same again. Says 19-year-old Colin Fletcher, who was a member of two Merseyside gangs before he entered Liverpool University: "It was the first time the gangs had been exposed to an animal rhythm that matched their own behavior. The beat spread like a rumour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: It's Better Than Beating Up Old Ladies with Bicycle Chains | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...pleasure to see. His costumes are less successful. Most are satisfactory and one brilliant, but what is splendid for Rumor, the Presenter and Epilogue in the second part, is on the wrong track for too many others. He has too often costumed, not clothed, and--except for the fantastical Rumour--this just fails. Some of his soldiers wear heraldic outfits, which for some reason makes them look like figures out of Tenniel's illustrations for Alice. Glendower looks as if he might glow in the dark. Messengers arrive from arduous journeys looking neat and clean. In contrast to the uneveness...

Author: By James A. Sharap, | Title: Henry the Fourth, I and II | 7/14/1960 | See Source »

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