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Word: lollypop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another midget, a boy this time, lollypop stuck to his palm, arms upheld by baloons tied to his wrists, ready for flight, came over to tend to his sister. For a moment there was a joyful reunion...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Pennies for Peace | 5/27/1968 | See Source »

While Crazy Joey was on trial, the cops rounded up 14 members of the vending-machine racketeering mob that he had organized in Brooklyn, including his father, Albert Gallo, his two brothers, Larry Gallo and Albert Gallo Jr., and such assorted fish as Joseph Musumeci, Larry ("Big Lollypop") Carna, Joseph ("Little Lollypop") Carna and Frank ("Punchy") Illiano. The cops made the arrests-the technical charge was consorting with criminals, that is, each other-after word got around that the Gallo mob was about to declare a shooting war on a rival Brooklyn gang headed by an olive oil distributor named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Crazy Like a Clam | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...actors on the stage who never sacrifics the meaning of her lines to their poetry. Joel Crothers as Romeo has but two strings to his harp: he either smiles the ingenuous smile of a toothpaste advertisement or pouts like a child denied his lollypop. The volume of his voice occasionally rises, but instead of the anger or anguish which should pour out at those moments, there comes merely a trickle of peevishness...

Author: By Allan Katz, | Title: Romeo and Juliet | 4/20/1961 | See Source »

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