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Word: untidyness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"The table was terribly untidy. Breadcrumbs soaked in the damp red stains, olive-stones floated in glasses, cigarette-ends sizzled in salad-plates. And we did not lift a little finger, we did not put a glass or a fork right, but just let the mess grow worse before us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Greek Air | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

This passage, midway through Ten Seconds from Now, not only attests to Greek Novelist Kay Cicellis' powers of evocation but also sums up the condition of her characters, who rely mainly on the bitter wine of unreciprocated love to keep their untidy and unhappy lives going. The setting is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Greek Air | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

At a banquet for Britain's M.P.s in the House of Commons dining hall, London's top-ranking master barber (the guild boss of hairdressers, perfumers and wigmakers) laid all about him with cutting comments on the hair styles of leading politicians, who often look, cried he, "like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 24, 1958 | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

Last week the Mellon arm was still there, all three Pittsburgh newspapers had endorsed his reelection, the machine was rolling, and Dave Lawrence was on the way to a fourth term. There were few who would say him nay, despite such displays of untidy municipal housekeeping as potholes in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: The Mighty Boss | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Too young at 46 to be urgently in need of one, Composer-Librettist Gian Carlo Menotti (The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street) was asked how he would phrase his own obituary. Much moved at the thought of his passing, Menotti ad-libbed a lyric that might be sung to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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