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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The heavies, recognized favorites for the Grand, found it more difficult to find sparring partners, and several times raced the 'fifties. Too many brushes, however, tend to make a crew nervous and weakens its form, and shortly before the first day of racing Coolidge took his eight up the river...

Author: By Bartle Bull, | Title: Crimson Eights Score Double Win at Henley; Crews Take Grand Challenge and Thames Cups | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

Terry and McGee made their first Boston appearance in the opening offering of the Folklore Concert Series at Jordan Hall and gave a sampling of their repertory at the Vanity. Alan Lomax, America's greatest living folklorist, gave one of his rare public performances and it's too bad he...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Terry, McGee and Lomax | 10/20/1959 | See Source »

"In any civilised man or woman who cannot win some enjoyment from this book," wrote Havelock Ellis about Casanova's Memoirs, "there must be something unwholesome and abnormal-something corrupt at the core." Writing in the Victorian era, Scientist Ellis (Psychology of Sex) idolized Casanova as a free spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rake's Progress | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

The climate of horror develops soon enough. There are unearthly night noises, a ghostly hand scrawls HELP ELEANOR COME HOME, and some force or creature smears blood (or is it red paint?) over the clothes of another of the doctor's girl assistants. Eleanor begins to crack soon enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mom Did It | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Refuge from Life. Within a week Eleanor is thinking of the haunted house as a refuge from her hated life. She gradually gives up her fears, her fight for sanity, puts out welcoming arms to the madness that embraces her. She dances through the house like a dervish at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mom Did It | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

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