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Word: swishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take you to my lips and swish you 'roun...

Author: By Charles S. Maier and John B. Radner, S | Title: I Hear America Swinging | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

...newspaper strike, which had cost nine New York dailies $30 million. Said the Times: "The sounds dear to the newspaper man's heart, the clattering Linotypes, the thump of the make-up man's mallet, the thunder of the presses, the soft swish of the emerging newspapers: this song will not be silenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Good Old Song | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Audience Participation. In Chicago, as Busoni's Sonata No. 2 reached the last groove and began to swish round and round unattended, anxious listeners (to highbrow radio station WFMT) called the studio, got no answer, notified the police, who rushed to the studio, found Disk Jockey Omar Shapli, 27, bent over a desk, sound asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...such is its success that one never notices. The irrepressible Fernandel plays a harrassed husband who feels that his real calling is women's fashions. One of his extra-curricular conquests leaves him the controlling interest in a fashion house that is on the skids, and amidst great swish and swirl our hero conquers the world of fashion. And with the usual amorous byplay, all comes out well...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Fernandel the Dressmaker | 12/4/1957 | See Source »

...word, that word would probably be "indifference." The solid building on Quincy Street serves his meals on cartwheel trays, houses his dances, and corrects his Gen. Ed. papers; but between these events only the click of billiard balls, the slap of a pingpong paddle, and a kitchenbroom's swish break a sluggish silence in the building. He ignores its pictures of old athletes on the walls, hangs campaign posters from mounted buffalo heads, and ties bibs around John Harvard's bust in the dining room...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: The Union | 5/3/1957 | See Source »

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