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Word: webster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party, according to Webster's, is a social gathering for pleasure, and by that definition-or any other-an evening with Betty Comden and Adolph Green is an invitation into high society. For more than 30 years this prolific writing team has enchanted theater audiences with book and lyrics for such hits as On the Town and Bells Are Ringing and delighted moviegoers with films like The Band Wagon and Singin' in the Rain. Now, for six weeks, Comden and Green are back on Broadway, doing their own numbers in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: High Society | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

Bobbi Humphrey, a jazz flautist and soloist who made her name playing with Byrd (imagine--now he's the bird) is playing with the ubiquitous Webster Lewis at the Berklee Performance Center this Sunday. Shows are at 7 and 10 p.m. I managed to miss Webster Lewis at both the Western Front and Symphony Hall. Looks like I'll dodge him successfully for a third time...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: JAZZ | 2/9/1977 | See Source »

...contrary, it's the Beanpot, as in the "edible, smooth, kidney-shaped seed of certain plants of the legume or pea family" (Webster, Daniel, "Dictionary," World Publishing Co., New York...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Soy, Kidney, Jelly, Lima, Orson | 2/8/1977 | See Source »

...Wolfe once theorized in New York magazine, can only be produced by the proper Eastern boarding schools, too many cigarettes over too many years and a great deal of whisky and gin. New York's founding editor Clay Schuette Felker, 51, attended a public high school in Webster Groves, Mo., has never smoked and rarely drinks anything stronger than cambric tea. His accent remains stubbornly and glottally Midwestern nasal. He flunks the honk test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: FELKER:'BULLY... BOOR... GENIUS' | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...Fred W. Webster Providence

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 20, 1976 | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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