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Word: talked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cookie in gold slacks, who makes her associates jump through all sorts of hoops in hopes of getting their hands on some of her money.) But Mr. Moss has little of interest to say about money, unless it be that money is very important to people, and that they talk about it a lot. Because the play's themes are announced so carefully, it is hard not to feel short-changed at the realization that The Folding Green makes no more meaningful a statement than the merest commercial laff-riot--especially since a laff-riot...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Folding Green | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

Hammond gave no particular reason why the Faculty Club now wants to break precedent for an official liquor permit. "There was talk about it over the summer," Hammond remarked, "and a group of us wanted to sound out the Administration about it this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Club May Apply For Cambridge Liquor License | 11/25/1958 | See Source »

Such a description of the plot makes it sound melodramatic, which it is. The unlikelieness of her meeting the sergeant again, and the often unrealistic tenor of the dialogue, in which peasant women tend to talk in profound concepts of duty, etc., when isolated seem corny. But the situation can hold the actors in such a tension of dramatic excellence, and the film as a visual whole exerts such a physical impact, that the inherent melodrama and sentimentality blur into unimportance...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: The Last Bridge | 11/25/1958 | See Source »

...make, especially if he has one. Get rid of that sense of justice, or you'll feel sorry for yourself, and then you'll soon be dead ... Go love without the help of anything on earth; and that's real horse meat." "Please don't talk," said the nun, "you're very seriously ill." "Not so seriously as you're well. How don't you enjoy life, mother. I should laugh all round my neck at this minute if my shirt wasn't a bit on the tight side." "It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...creativity and spirit inherent in the Russian people have not been completely submerged by life under the Communist regime, said James H. Billington, assistant professor of History, last night in a talk at Christ Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billington Discusses Impressions Of Living Conditions in U.S.S.R. | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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