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Word: sweetheart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breathe tire because his father swallowed too much water swimming the Hellespont. Or sensitive Fletcher Rabbit, who complained when he washed his flop-ears: "I can't do a thing with them," or Beulah Witch, who was arrested for reckless broomstick driving on Halloween, or their foil and sweetheart Fran Allison, the only live character on the show, with her infectious Midwesternisms ("Wouldn't you just know that would happen, just honestly"). Fran was so taken by the satiric little land of make-believe that she never could bear to watch the puppets being shut away in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: End of the Affair | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...year-old student at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University was just plain bored: somehow, he decided, he would have to get rid of his tiresome prostitute sweetheart. And so, one day last fall, Kenjiro Yoshida invited her around to his dormitory and strangled her with a necktie. Three months later, police found her body under the dormitory floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learned Criminals | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Finished Symphony. In Chicago, the Tribune ran an ad: "SWEETHEART: You used to say if I'm not going to marry you, I'm not going to marry anybody else, and you used to say you are my sweetheart from now on. What happened, dearest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 20, 1957 | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

term for my passion; There's not a sweetheart in town I'd be reluctant to love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latin Without Tears | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...pretty street singer who ditches her poor but honest boy friend (Baritone Theodor Uppman) for a viceroy of Peru, Soprano Patrice Munsel does some discreet bumps and grinds, rides an ass, and prettily sings the operetta's best-known tune, a farewell aria to her sweetheart-one of those lovely, almost-convincing pieces of lyricism that Offenbach turned out along with his musical ironies. In addition to the ass ridden by Soprano Munsel-a beast named Amos, rented at $30 a night-Actor-Director Ritchard has assigned himself a black charger for a grand entrance as the viceroy. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Romp at the Met | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

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