Search Details

Word: bees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...girl at Cowie has promised Oliver Wilson a seamless nylon hairnet for his unruly locks. Because Mrs. Betey Brown says we shouldn't, and we're mad at her because she won't guest-write our column even once, we will say that Wally Notter's daughter looks too bee-eutiful for to be a boy, although it is, and it has hair, which...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

...bee is such a busy soul...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

...years the biggest U. S. summer school has been Columbia's, where thousands of schoolteachers become students again for a six-week term. Last week, as usual, a swarm of teachers, mostly women from small-town schools, made a bee-loud glade of the precincts of Teachers College. But this war season is not as most sum mers on Morningside Heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Columbia in the Heat | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Harry James and his band rock Winsocki to its foundations-the ballroom scene demands that the spectator love the Jamesian trumpet as St. Francis loved the birds. (Harry's rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee makes the old-fashioned trumpet solo sound like a first lesson in occupational therapy.) But once the maestro parks his horn and takes the floor with bouncing, pint-sized Nancy Walker for a comedy dance which is the high point of the whole proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 19, 1943 | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...rifleman, Lou developed an accuracy famed in an outfit noted for its shooting, once he took up mortars. On Guadal he boasted he could lob a shell down a chimney, and did. When a Jap cruiser closed in to shore, Lou lobbed a few shells at it (like firing bee-bees at a bomber), explained, "I wanted to check my azimuth and it's just right." Many a mortar crew in the Solomons was Diamond-polished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: In the Rough | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

First | Previous | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | Next | Last