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Word: stinkingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mamma pleaded: "Larry, be a doctor. Be a lawyer. Be somebody." But Larry looked up the leader of a harmonica troupe. One audition and he got the word: "You stink." A few weeks later he was signed on for a tour of the Paramount vaudeville circuit-then the boss of the show came to rehearsal. The voice rumbled across the theater: "This boy stinks." In retrospect, says Adler, "there seems to have been a certain unhappy unanimity of feeling about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Harmonica's Return | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Frankie's arrival was the capper. He snarled "Nothing to say" to reporters greeting him at the airport, threatened (his weight: 140 Ibs.) a photographer at the Melbourne Stadium, where he appeared: "Take another picture and I'll ram that camera down your throat. You stink." Cried the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "Frankie plays hard to get-but who wants him?" The answer, obviously, was Ava; she haunted his dressing room at the stadium, a front-row seat when he sang "Why not take all of me?" and his suite at his hotel. But bodyguards were always outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD ABROAD: Solitude, Sweet Solitude | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Judd....I'm not afraid of you, I'm afraid for you"). But after the chatter between the cops, the reporter and his girl, Judd, Artie, and "Mumsie," and a destruction of the boy's alibi that has more resemblance to a college dean discovering who set off the stink-bomb in Chemistry, the movie happily surrenders to Mr. Welles...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Compulsion | 4/15/1959 | See Source »

...Like a stink bomb with a time fuse, a typescript of Nicholas Crabbe has lain for almost half a century in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Now exhumed for first publication, the novel fulfills the pungent promise hinted by literary investigators who have concerned themselves with the strange case of its author, Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe, alias "Baron Corvo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad but Memorable | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

...still picketing. We're using the railroad. We send our men over to the railroad station to pick up pipe. Our men continue to do this, and we continue to be in business. But then the boys start getting run off the road and threatened. They threw two stink bombs in my house. The house still stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: IT SHAKES YOUR CONFIDENCE | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

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