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Word: tavernes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Schickele explains solemnly that he first stumbled on P.D.Q., whose existence was known only "from police records and tavern lOUs," while touring a Bavarian castle in 1953. To his amazement, he says, he found the care taker using a piece of manuscript as a strainer for his percolator. It turned out to be the Sanka cantata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Concerts: Properly Neglected | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Shea worked for Little and Brown publishing company for 20 years before World War II. During the war he worked in Four Rivers shipyard. He owned a tavern for several years before he came to work for Harvard seven years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caretaker in Lamont Dies of Heart Attack | 1/5/1966 | See Source »

...apparatus now known as the Central Intelligence Agency had a Revolutionary War ancestor called the Culper Ring. America's first espionage agents-a whaler, a tavern keeper, a Quaker merchant, Schoolmaster Nathan Hale-were very ingenuous spies. The members referred to each other by numbers, wrote their messages to General Washington in disappearing ink called Sympathetic Stain, and were totally hangdog about their calling. "I've lived four years of my life in fear," one of them is supposed to have said, "and I'll live the rest of it in shame." Author Corey Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Nov. 19, 1965 | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...Dunaway (Kathleen Stanton) turns the directional restraint into stiffness. Especially in the first act her voice is tense, her gestures mannerd. The well-born Irishwoman who left "God and country" for a tavern-keeper might have some residual hauteur, but she certainly wouldn't be cold. Only in her death scene at the end of the play does she loosen up, and become passionate enough to assert her role...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Hogan's Goat | 11/4/1965 | See Source »

...political oratory and tall talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous"). It spilled over in the invincible optimism with which new towns called themselves cities, hotel was any flea-bitten tavern, and opera house meant any public hall, with or without a roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Growth of Identity | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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