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Word: swains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurricane Hazel indirectly claimed another casualty Monday afternoon when an inexperienced workman, James Swain (shown on stretcher, above) fell 22 feet from a Yard tree, which he was mending after storm damage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Workman's Condition Called Poor After Fall from Yard Tree Monday | 2/2/1955 | See Source »

...Carsonish liar, whose opening gun is "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds," its beplumed society lady who springs to her feet when a Salvation Army hymn strikes up, its old woman jabbering rapid-fire Italian, its nervous swain constantly dropping nickels into a pay phone, its persistent fanatic nursing along the marbles game-these have a fine exuberance and humor about them, and have the wackiness -plus a Saroyanesque warmth-of a You Can't Take It with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Week in Manhattan | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...impassioned verses, inscribed on linen paper of powder blue and slipped under a door. ("Love! Bitter love! Pursue me no more!") But the chaperons, the sedate hot-chocolate parties and all the genteel elegance of yesteryear are being put to rout. "Ay, chica," cries 1955's blue-jeaned swain as Night and Day booms out of the record-player, "you're sweeter than an ice-cream cone and a blue sky!" The girl's fashionable ponytail bobs happily in acknowledgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: The Cocacolos | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...SWAIN Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...SWAIN Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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