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Word: screaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have "a sense" for fakes. One of the greatest connoisseurs he ever met was an uneducated genius who made his living running a brothel. In his spare time he hung questionable paintings on a clothesline in the house, invited Pupil Schoeller to find the fakes. "What!" he would scream when Schoeller made a mistake. "Look here. The whole corner has been painted in-and clumsily at that. See the different false shades?" Schoeller would look again, and sure enough, the entire aura of the painting seemed to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: True or False? | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

When the whistle broke into a scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Runaway Train | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...child with ulcers is much like an adult with ulcers: the brighter-than-average, tense type, who bottles up his emotions. (Dr. Girdany's patients did not kick and scream the way many kids would if offered a "barium breakfast," but suffered in silence.) Such children may carry their ulcer troubles into adult life -so that tense little tykes grow into big, tense tycoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Children with Ulcers | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...Amelia Earhart." Chuckles Parks: "I thought she'd kill him when I said Earhart was wrong. We kept the TV camera on them as they went down to their seats, and she was really giving it to him hot & heavy for losing all that money. It was a scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fun in the Living Room | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...dark little girl gave a sudden angry scream, whereupon blue trousers shouted, "It's mine, it's mine-I had it first." Her voice shook with tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: ROMANCE | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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