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Word: thumper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just like most girls their age except that they have a daddy who is a pianist-songwriter (The Money Tree) and full of bright ideas. One day Daddy-Mark Mclntyre-took them over to a recording studio and played his arrangement of the old Lee David-Billy Rose heart-thumper, Tonight You Belong to Me, while the girls cut a record as a birthday gift for Grandmother. When a musical friend of the family heard the record, "she flipped," and when Daddy submitted the disk to Liberty Records, President Si Waronker flipped too. By now, the record has sold more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: P.&P. | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...tested for the title role in Marjorie Morningstar. As the season's best-plugged heroine hunt progressed, Hollywood jungle drums boomed Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker, Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor and the Old Vic's Claire Bloom for the part. A likely long shot, according to one tub thumper, for Herman Wouk's bagel-belt heroine: Steve Allen's sometime girl singer, Irish-descended Erin O'Brien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...pair of buffoons who would have trouble finding the corner mailbox. History records that Sacajawea, the expedition's Indian interpreter, was one of the wives of a French guide and the mother of his son. Hollywood knows better: actually, she was unmarried Donna Reed, a high-fashion pulse-thumper turned out in beautifully tailored buckskins. Heston finds her a tasty dish even if her name is too much for him to master: he calls her "Janie" for short and proposes marriage. For all its duels with knives, wild Indian attacks and synthetic quarrels between the leaders. Horizons ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

BAKER FIELD, N.Y.--Yale beat Columbia here Saturday but didn't fulfill the fond hopes of its ace tub-thumper or the expectations of the reliable Jersey house, which had made the New Have crowd a two-touchdown favorite...

Author: By Peter B. Taus, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/13/1954 | See Source »

...precocious Southern Ibos and Yorubas, most of whom are religiously poised between paganism and Christianity. The Ibos, about 3,000,000 strong, live east of the steamy valley of the Niger, Africa's third-largest river. Their leader, Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, 48, is a U.S.-educated tub-thumper whose chain of bush newspapers helped him launch Nigeria's most powerful political party. In the Southwest, an equal number of Yorubas make their headquarters in Ibadan (pop. 400,000), Africa's largest native city, and support Zik's chief rival, 43-year-old Barrister Obafemi Awolowo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bloodshed in Nigeria | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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