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Word: sheridan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoyed at the height of his fame. They show him to be one of the most original writers in the line that descends from Edgar Poe to the authors of Mandrake the Magician, and in which he has few peers (some of them: M. R. James, Henry James, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, W. W. Jacobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elsewhere & Otherwise | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...Friday nights, lower Second Avenue resounds to simultaneous jam sessions at the Stuyvesant Casino (9th Street) and Central Plaza (6th). Ella Fitzgerald is at Birdland, Broadway near 52nd. Josh White and a cover charge go hand in hand at Cafe Society, Sheridan Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYC Seethes with Entertainment for Holidays | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

...father. And there was a second strain of Irish genius which can be developed to a higher pitch outside that country: the role of the stage-Irishman. Whenever that genius has submitted to the discipline of the theater, it has been irresistible. Behind Shaw the dramatist were Goldsmith, Sheridan and Wilde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: G.B.S.: 1856-1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...crediting the opposite sex with their own characteristics. Shaw's lovers do not test each other's hearts, but only their wills. They are adroit in the campaigns worked up by the mental affections; they are trained in that military sense of love one sees also in Sheridan, in seeking out the strategy of character. There is no hate in this love and no fear either; it is neutral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: G.B.S.: 1856-1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...Aurora city council banned the U.N. flag from public buildings because "Russian Communists remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town officials asked the Army at Fort Sheridan for guidance, who asked Fifth Army headquarters in Chicago, who asked the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROVERSY: Old Glory & Something Blue | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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