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Word: wordly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there has been no word indicating what names are being considered, but popular consensus around Yale points to Ohio's Taft brothers, Robert A. Y '10 and Charles P. Y. '18, as strong contenders, with Charles held the favorite...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, | Title: Yale Hunts Successor to Retiring President; Tafts Being Considered | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Many players were bumped up in the Brown fracas, but at this point Art Valpey is only willing to commit himself on the status of two men: John White and Dan Cass join Charlie Walsh as definitely ineligible to face the Elis. The doctors will release word on the other doubtfuls tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Week Starts With Light Drill | 11/15/1949 | See Source »

...tailored, severely handsome woman of 47 who never wastes a word (or a dollar of production costs), Producer Crawford went from her native Akron to Smith College, and then straight to Broadway. She joined the Theatre Guild as a part-time secretary, worked her way up through odd jobs to casting director, quit in 1931 to become a founder and director of the fiery young Group Theatre, which launched Clifford Odets, Sidney Kingsley, William Saroyan, Elia Kazan, Robert Lewis, John Garfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...offering an assortment of period costumes, family tragedies, marital crises and extramarital complications. Alfred, for whom every age proves a dangerous age, is incurably romantic and roving. Lynn, facing one ticklish domestic situation after another, knows the wise wife's formula for holding her husband: never a cross word and always a puzzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...have never yet retracted a word of . . . fair comment," boasted Columnist Westbrook Pegler one day last week. Next day, in the New York Journal-American and 249 other papers carrying his column, he retracted a thousand words of unfair comment. As a legal settlement of several multimillion-dollar libel suits, Pegler published a 98-word apology to Delaware Businessman Abram N. Spanel for implying that he was "a Communist or fellow traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Unfair Enough | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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