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Word: ll (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wished to send a girl a birthday wire, poor clam, I'd use a Western Union predigested tele gram-That'll show you what I am: Just a boob, a Simple Sam, But I have my one rebellion, and I stick to it, by damn-For in one thing, I insist, I'm a misbehaviorist, As heroic as they were at Valley Forge: With amazement hear me speak My accomplishment unique, I NEVER CALLED A PULLMAN PORTER GEORGE. If you want the other stanzas, you can find them in the files of the SRI.. Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...been remarked in Russia that the 'women say what the men think.' And during the periods this winter when the temperature fell at times to 45° below zero, women in the queues were heard to say 'We've had enough of this: we'll not go through this again.' Such remarks I never heard in Russia, even during the days of the 1933 famine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hungry | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...ll be running for the White House, and I'm not going to take in any roomers." This sort of prattle all over the networks, on programs ranging from Jack Benny's Jell-O half-hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ccmdidette | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...head is revolving," says Bishop Kinsolving, Heigh-ho, we'll blow the man down. "I'll drink till I totter," says Rt. Rev. Potter. . . . "To hell with white ribbons," says good Cardinal Gibbons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trinity to Trinity | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Texas George"). Reminded, after his election, of General Sherman's statement that "if he owned Hell and Texas, he would farm out Texas and live in Hell," Texas George replied: "Since in the inscrutable providence of God, the General has been granted his choice, I think I'll go down and see what I can do with the farm." The late Rt. Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving, tall and handsome brother of Texas George, founded the first Protestant mission in Brazil, for 31 years was a missionary bishop in that country. His stay there resulted in Brazilian nicknames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trinity to Trinity | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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