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Word: sundays (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peacefully Chatting. But on Easter Sunday-a brooding day in which fog and bituminous smoke pressed down on Clover Fork, Yokum, Catron's Creek and all the hills and hollers-history caught up with Ambrose Metcalfe. He drove into the shabby settlement of Lejunior with his wife and baby, stopped and climbed out, belligerently intent on investigating a parked automobile in which he had seen a bootlegger named Ford Sizemore and a café operator, Art Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: New Grave in Harlan County | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...customary for Hollywood to take itself seriously in every instance, the Awards being no exception. However, the ad-man for a recent motion-picture, "Chicken Every Sunday," recently bilied Celeste Holm as "that Academy Award winnin' gal!" Miss Holm was given her Award for appearing intelligibly in anti-anti-Semitic film...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 4/27/1949 | See Source »

...moaned "morphine, morphine,' in a pained-wracked voice. He waggled his fingers at feverish flu-victims and solemnly pronounced "Leprosy." He played cards until he found he knew all the cards from the back. He read patients each others fever charts. He even insisted on holding Bible readings on Sunday morning, after awhile...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Circling the Square | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

This is until recently. At present, one of the few comedians who doesn't have to steal Morgan's jokes is allegedly paying for them. The Henry Morgan show, a half hour of sporadic Sunday night drollery is sponsored by the Fred Allen show, another half hour of the same sort of thing. The combined shows run from eight to nine...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

With the help of the best straight man in radio, Arnold Stang, Morgan manages to parlay his destructive parodies into an average of ten really excellent minutes of humor and twenty satisfactory ones every Sunday night...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: From the Pit | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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