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Word: sirring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sir: . . . For digging out the important little facts that make Wellesley the great college it is ... a gold star. BARBARA SCOTT CRAWFORD Erie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Sir: As a young married woman five years out of college ... I disagree with the statement by Wellesley's President Clapp that men & women have the same function as citizens and as members of the community . . . The primary function of woman in society is that of mother and homemaker, [and] her education should not completely blind her to the ultimate career which she will follow .... It is in the mental attitude of the woman when she is faced with the problems of the child and the home that the shortcomings of the college curriculum show up plainest. Her "broadened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Pardon. He pointed at Porterfield's carbine and yelled: "Is that thing loaded?" "No, sir," said the guardsman. "Well, son," said Reed happily, hauling out his .38, "mine is. Get going, you're under arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITOL: The Big Dream | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, Sir Laurence Olivier's production of the play, starring his wife Vivien Leigh, opened in the West End and was greeted by all-night queues a block long. The critics sang the praises of Actress Leigh and Director Olivier, but gave Williams' script a mixed chorus of grudging praise and abuse. Samples: "I feel as if I had crawled through a garbage heap" . . . "Blatant, crude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Tramway's Progress | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Un Tramway Nommé Désir rolled into Paris in the costliest production ever given a U.S. play in France. Adapter-Producer Jean Cocteau, Parisian jack-of-all-arts, had treated it to a few touches of his own. In each seduction scene, a spotlight shifted to a Negro woman doing a belly dance in the background. Cocteau had also salted the dialogue. One critic noted that he had used "merde at least ten times, and it was one of the milder expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Tramway's Progress | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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