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Word: conches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...whirring bats, actors chasing girls and women having babies. But the distaff side of the show makes itself felt with sultry, hip-shaking "Souse American Way" Carmen Miranda (The Streets of Paris}, brassy Ella Logan, peppery Dance-stars Rosario & Antonio, song-&-dance routines, puppeteers, jugglers, performers on a conch-like object called a sing-a-tina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Manhattan | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...conch'e perla...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over 100 Harvard And Yale Singers Thrill Large Audience In Paine Hall | 11/22/1941 | See Source »

...town, enduring its second siege within a year, is like an old crumbling conch shell in which some new life, some sea anemone, has tenaciously nestled. The Italians lost it after a two-week siege, but for 16 weeks the British had been surrounded in Tobruk; and last week they were more lively than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATER: Tobruk, 16 Weeks Later | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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