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Word: skull (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...irascible twin brothers (both played by Hume Cronyn) married to pleasant, long-suffering wives. It then tells how the wives (Jessica Tandy and Dorothy Stickney) decide that it would greatly improve matters if they disposed of their husbands. Disposing of them requires a stalled elevator, tainted oyster juice, a skull-bopping with a frozen leg of lamb, and a medicinal drink containing tiger's whiskers; but the ladies are very happily widowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...feet from within, and an aide comes to attention: "The President." The man who steps onto the veranda is all in black-black skullcap, black Chinese gown, black felt slippers. As the President of Nationalist China stands bowing and smiling politely, the visitor notices the thin, angular face and skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk. He waves his visitor to a sofa, then takes a straight chair beside him. Barking his comments at the interpreter in his staccato, rough Mandarin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: Man of the Single Truth | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...nightshirts and shirtsleeves Bernard and the dignitaries passed the buckets to save Hollis, Stoughton, and Massachusetts, but Harvard was razed. In ashes was the nation's largest library, which had included John Harvard's collection, stuffed birds, the "Skull of a Famous Indian Warrior," and the entire "Repositerry of Curiousities...

Author: By D. C. Shore, | Title: Harried Hall | 3/16/1955 | See Source »

...trouble with Doctor, in fact, is that the fun is almost too fast and furious. One minute somebody is dippy on ether fumes, the next he is nursing a stuffed gorilla in an ambulance; and before the audience can say cholecystelectrocoagulectomy, a flowerpot shatters on the dean's skull, and the hero crashes through a skylight into bed with-that's right-the head nurse herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11:--If Harvard 1 is not the skull-lined study of a medieval monk, Professor Charles H. Taylor at least creates the appropriate atmosphere when he gives the "Intellectual History of Europe, 500 to 1300." St. Augustine should confess to an appreciative audience in History 121b...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Need a Course: II | 2/3/1955 | See Source »

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