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Word: ushers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discernible in Skouras' entertaining is still more marked in his major activities. Some years ago in Atlanta, Ga., Skouras was inspecting a million-dollar theater, a weak link in one of his chains. Arriving at the theater at 11 a.m., he found no one there except a youthful usher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Aug. 11, 1952 | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...Where's the manager?" he asked, without identifying himself except by his strong Greek accent, which the usher failed to recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Aug. 11, 1952 | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...said the usher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Aug. 11, 1952 | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

Thirty six juniors were chosen for the honorary usher position. The list was as follows: Allen Barry Kirkland; Charles Boit, Leverett; Robert Bolt, Eliot; Thorley Briggs, Lowell; Donald Cantor, Winthrop; Philip Cronin Lowell; Paul Crowley Leverett; John Davidson Adams; Gilbert Elsner Lowell; Thomas Everhart Kirkland; Jerry Henderson Adams; and Danna Hastings Kirkland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 36 Jr. Ushers For '52 Class Week Chosen | 5/13/1952 | See Source »

...sense, her husband's election to the presidency was a triumph for her-after his attack of polio his mother had done everything in her power to keep poor Franklin at home by her side in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. But Usher Ike Hoover recalled Eleanor Roosevelt's first day in the White House-he discovered her hard at work tugging furniture into new positions, as if by that housewife's gesture she could make a home out of the halls in which Lincoln had lived and a million tourists had wandered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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