Word: spunkiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Managing Editor Herbert Edward Hames Jr., Illinois' Ottawa Republican-Times has earned a reputation as one of the Midwest's spunkiest small dailies (circ. 13,225). In six years on the job, outspoken Editor Hames tromped on many high-placed toes. Yet, when word got out last week that Herb Hames was being fired, Ottawa's church and community leaders spontaneously banded together to protest the Hames dismissal...
...phrase that has become a Broadway byword. Said O'Hara: "It ain't Blossom Time" It sure ain't, but it is a dandy piece of entertainment−the sad, hilarious story of how a kept man lost his meal ticket. It has some of the spunkiest and most graceful music Richard Rogers ever wrote, some wackily witty, leering lyrics ("The way to my heart is unzipped again") by the late Lorenz Hart, and a number of dances that appear to be very hard on shoe leather but are plenty easy on the eyes...
...Dance to the Piper, her autobiography, she tells how she slowly made the grade. Dance to the Piper is considerably more than the success story of a poor little rich girl. It is a witty, civilized account of an age of revolution in the dance, by one of the spunkiest of the revolutionaries...
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