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Word: tilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lady, her husband's nephew and a lady's maid, the husband himself, and a family friend with four innocent golden-haired daughters, are all cheek-by-jowl or better in a Paris fleabag. Upstairs and down they scamper, in and out of rooms they dash, till the gendarmes come rushing in at the second-act curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Apr. 22, 1957 | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...make him a perpetually driven and tormented man. "It just boils down to the fact that there is no rest, once the worm gets in and begins to feed upon the heart. Somewhere long ago...the worm got in and has been feeding ever since and will be feeding till I die. After this happens, a man becomes a prisoner; there are times when he almost breaks free, but there is one link in the chain that always holds; there are times when he almost forgets...but there is one tiny cell that still keeps working, working even when...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Thomas Wolfe's Letters Illuminate Art, Stimulate Renewed Interest in Works | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

...Wait till you see Playhouse go" matronly Party Giver Perle Mesta was telling everybody in Hollywood last week. "You'll feel sorry for me." Perle was right, but for the wrong reasons. She had hoped to de-emphasize her reputation as a gay social lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Senate rackets investigation rolled out a mass of evidence that Frank W. Brewster, a top Teamster Union official, applied cash from the union till to a home, racing stable, and costly tailor-made suits. There was evidence, too, that Brewster doubled up on expense accounts...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: British Unions Announce Strike, Would Paralyze Manufacturing; Israel Poses New War Threat | 3/20/1957 | See Source »

...Haven't you ever known any nice people in your life? A. I've never met one I couldn't love if I completely knew him and understood him. Concluded Williams: "Will you have a drink now?" A. Thank you, no. I never drink till after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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