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Word: hyperthyroid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remaining 65 percent live mostly in the organized dormitory system provided by the university. Its life may not be quite so socially hyperthyroid as that of fraternity men but it is somewhat less costly (about $2000) and by no means devoid of the fun fraternity men allegedly have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Fraternities Drink, Eagerly Wait Wild Weekends | 10/14/1950 | See Source »

Tell It to the Judge (Columbia) is marital slapstick in which Robert Cummings pursues Rosalind Russell from Florida to the Adirondacks. In the best woman's magazine tradition, it depicts the U.S. male as a kitten and the female as a hyperthyroid tiger. Attorney Russell, as stalwart as the bottom man in a tumbling act, is efficient at everything, while Lawyer Cummings gets knocked out twice (once by Rosalind), skis on his face, wears a kimono and does the cooking. Typical scene: Cummings skittishly trying to sleep alongside a wet Saint Bernard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Anything for Laughs | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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