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Word: webster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the center-fold of his 16-page publication, is graphically in the form of a giant phallic symbol, rising, one gathers, from the base of mediocrity and human rubbish. Mr. Robinson displays an amazing knowledge of six, seven, and eight-letter words, including poniard (spelled poignard, with which Webster is unfamiliar, on the preceding page by Harry Kemp, described as "a former friend of Eugene O'Neill") and cautery, the household word of course for what happens when you pick up a hot frying...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: Identity | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

...fast-moving and imaginative productions of Margaret Webster proved a stimulus and an eye-opener. And now our Stratford has a handsome, air-conditioned theatre which contains Rouben Ter-Arutunian's magnificent basic stage and a surrounding physical plant that can accommodate the demands of all Shakespeare's plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stratford, Connecticut; the Future of American Shakespearean Productions | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

...Webster: "Means sufficient for the necessaries of life; sufficiency without excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 8, 1958 | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Bill Harris and Friends (Ben Webster, tenor sax; Jimmy Rowles, piano; Red Mitchell, bass; Stan Levey, drums; Fantasy). Trombonist Harris, who sometimes sounds as if he were blowing through several folds of velvet, is the weakest operative on an album chiefly distinguished by the pensive unfolding of some fine solos by Saxman Webster. In Where Are You?, I Surrender, Dear and In a Mello-tone, Webster articulates his longings with spacious ease and a tone as husky with melancholy as a distant-sounding foghorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...fast-moving and imaginative productions of Margaret Webster proved a stimulus and an eye-opener. And now our Stratford has a handsome, air-conditioned theatre, which contains Rouben Ter-Arutunian's magnificent basic stage and a surrounding physical plant that can accommodate the demands of all Shakespeare's plays with amazing speed and versatility...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Stratford, Conn. and the Future of American Shakespeare | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

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