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Word: weeknightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many educators. Foremost is the 'unnatural' effect of coming into contact with women on weekends only. An artificial attitude towards dates and sex results when it becomes a special event to meet them; and although Albertus Magnus is in New Haven and Connecticut College for Women not too distant, weeknight dating is infrequent. There is consequently a compensatory amount of drinking...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Female Yale: 'Plainly Attractive' | 11/22/1958 | See Source »

Newsman, playwright, novelist and Hollywood script mechanic, Ben (The Front Page) Hecht, 63, has always been a fast man with the spoken word. He is so fast, in fact, that ever since he took over a TV weeknight interview show on Manhattan's WABC this fall, his guests have been hopelessly outclassed in the fight for mike time. Mixing it up with experts in varied fields ranging from erotica to execution by hanging, Hecht has been calculatedly outrageous and often funny. Last week he turned on Hollywood, bit the hands that used to feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: How to Lose Friends | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

Cute Girls. Cigar-smoking Elsa, a spry and engaging 74, is an aimless guest on Paar's weeknight show (11:15 p.m. to 1 a.m.), and he may lose her to other commitments. Still, Paar seems to have collected enough Paar-snips and talented showfolk to rescue NBC from the debacle of its late America after Dark show and save Tonight for many another day. Though Tonight is still a money-losing proposition for NBC, 76 stations now carry the show instead of taking the craven's way out with old movies. In last fortnight alone, Paar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Guy at the Office Party | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...main objection to keeping the library open an extra two hours each weeknight, and from 2 p.m. until midnight on Sundays is the vastly increased cost. The 20 percent increase in library hours would cost $20,000 per year, McNiff said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNiff Agrees on Freshman Lack Of Adequate Late Study Facilities | 3/5/1955 | See Source »

Eliot and Dunster announced that they would extend visiting hours for women guests on April 23 from the customary 8 p.m. to 11; Winthrop said it would set its parietal deadline that evening at 9; and Kirkland, Leverett, and Lowell decided to keep the 8 o'clock weeknight rule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Masters Disagree On Parietal Rules For Key Weekend | 4/17/1954 | See Source »

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