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Word: stomped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...folksy side, the show has some agreeable music and peppy dancing, but nothing better; and as if Texas weren't big enough, it makes several fumbling forays across the state line into Oklahoma!. The show is actually best when it has a straight Broadway blare and stomp and when the cast, which could use more personal glamour, can show its professional savvy. Somehow Texas just can't find the right girl or gag in the pinches; it dawdles when it needs to spurt, and turns cheap when it ought to be charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Rally marchers will stomp tonight for the last time this year when "a different kind of parade" hits the traditional pre-Yale route to Dillon Field House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Starts Yale Weekend | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Jerry Kilty, remembered for his Falstaff of last year, is back once again with a "tolerable deal of sack" by his side, and, of course, the combination is infallibly amusing. He plays Stephano, and is very ably matched by the Trinculo of David Andrews.' Together, the two romp and stomp about the stage, like two mad clowns--or is it two children inebriated only with springtime--and when joined with Caliban, it's a real howl...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...thoug shalt mark each one well: and if some Goat doth prance and stomp and beat upon the ground with his hoof, heed...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...thing, there were his sermons on taking the profit out of war. Says he: "One or two people always stomp angrily out of the church whenever I intimate that anybody ever made a profit out of war." He also preached against "the obsession with making money," and "sharp practices in business." Some of his critics thought it was the last straw when, in celebration of this year's "Brotherhood Week,"* Pastor Douds invited a Negro minister, the Rev. Edward Graham, to preach from his pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Risks of Brotherhood | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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