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Word: spencers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last Hurrah. A brogues' gallery of Boston Irish politicos, headed by Spencer Tracy as lovable, larcenous Mayor Skeffington, who fades out with the kind of bathos that could even dissolve an Ulsterman in tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...Last Hurrah. The Good Government League should be outraged by this Crook's Tour of old-style machine politics, as conducted by Spencer Tracy in the guise of lovable, larcenous Frank Skeffington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: From Hollywood | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Last Hurrah. Spencer Tracy as the curly-headed machine politician (James Michael Curley, that is) who ran Boston in blarney and shamrock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Dec. 8, 1958 | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

...Last Hurrah. No resemblance to persons living or dead is intended, but patrons will be permitted to recall Boston's ex-Mayor Jim Curley who died last week at 83. With Spencer Tracy, being as lovable as any crooked politician in the history of the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...Spencer Tracy, despite his refusal to wear makeup, is once more trying to play the role of someone other than himself. In The Old Man and the Sea, Tracy emerges from his "late Cary Grant Period" of recent years, turns in one of Hollywood's few notable renderings of theatrical monologue, and does what he can for a generally unimpressive movie...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: The Old Man and the Sea | 11/18/1958 | See Source »

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