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Word: sackings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jerry Kilty, remembered for his Falstaff of last year, is back once again with a "tolerable deal of sack" by his side, and, of course, the combination is infallibly amusing. He plays Stephano, and is very ably matched by the Trinculo of David Andrews.' Together, the two romp and stomp about the stage, like two mad clowns--or is it two children inebriated only with springtime--and when joined with Caliban, it's a real howl...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...food shop, coolies carrying fat white sacks bulldozed their way through the crowd, their sweaty faces caked with flour dust. One man, who was emptyhanded, jumped onto the back of a little fellow lugging a full sack. They rolled together in the gutter. When an American photographer started to take a picture, a white-faced Chinese cried out: 'No, no. You must not. This is a disgrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Naked City | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Columnist Elsa Maxwell rated first place on Hearstling Cholly Knickerbocker's annual list of the world's worst-dressed women because "she could put on an exquisite creation by Christian Dior or Jacques Fath and look as if she were wearing a sack of potatoes." Trailing Elsa came sexagenarian Musicomedienne Mistin-guett ("Continues to display her gams . . . has refused to adopt the new look"), Alice Roosevelt Longworth ("Doesn't have the time to bother about such things"), Signora Rita Togliatti ("Not born with good taste"), Cinemactress Greer Garson ("Draperies and dresses are not the same thing"), Gypsy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Let's Face It | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Guarding, the initial suck all be E. J. Sack. On the Keystone sack will be J. J. Sack. On the third sack, replacing P. Sack, will be Tightfisted C. $coundrel. At shortstop, the Crime will offer Wilful S. ("Special When Lit") Fouifellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frahious Crimeds Spread Napkins Today Make Ready to Caste of This Meat, 23-2 | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

...Jerscy; Louis Frederick Klein, Jr. '49 of West Roxbury; Saul Kravetz '48 of Brooklyn, New York; Benjamin Hammet Lacy '49 of Dubuue, towa; Hugh Gregory Langley '49 of St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada; Christopher Michael Martin '49 of Newark, New Jersery; Joseph Francis Ryan, Jr. '49 of West Roxbury; Paul Sack '48 of Younkers, New York; Eli Jacob Sagau '48 of South Orange, New Jersey; Howard Hugh Schless '46 to Philadelphia; Noel Marshall Seeburg, Jr. '46 of Chicago; Garabad Shargabian '48 of Roxbury; Jason Loonard Starr '49 of Mattapan; Robert Brown Voitle, Jr. '50 of Pttsburgh, Pennsylvania; Richard Wingard Wallach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBK Chooses Eight Juniors, 30 Graduates | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

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