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Word: sirrah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard but dropped out after a year. Scott, whose poem bad news has been published in Los Angeles magazine, has been contacted by Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and Harper's magazine, is planning to return to college this fall. Schulberg is equally high on the talents of Leumas Sirrah, 18, a high-school student whose poems are generally lyrical abstractions about God and life, and Jimmy Sherman, 22, whose four-stanza verse TH' WORKIN' MACHINE is being set to music by television's Steve Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: Screenwriter in the Ghetto | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...with 50? and an unnegotiable name: Yehuda-Leib Siew. This he changed to William Laurence-the surname chosen for the street he lived on in Boston. He taught himself a kind of English by comparing Russian and English versions of Shakespearean plays and practiced on unamused trolley conductors: "Holla, sirrah, wouldst prithee halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: Science of Reporting | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

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