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Word: aspidistras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain's current production drive. Britons are fondly familiar with the "low but clean" pattern of a Fields performance. There are 45 minutes of sentimental ballads, sung in an ear-jarring soprano that sometimes shrills up to high C, and comedy songs (like her famed The Biggest Aspidistra in the World), screeched out in unabashed Lancastrian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Our Gracie | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...first commercial radio series (now in its fourth week) do not hear it. On the air (Monday through Friday, 9:55 p.m.) Gracie doles out only a five-minute teaser-enough for "a song and a bit of a story." Last week, typically, the song was The Biggest Aspidistra in the World and the story about cockney Bill who was blown out of a window by a bomb, came to, remarked "Crikey! I got outa there just in time." For this token program Gracie receives a handsome $2,500 a week (from Pall Mall cigarets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Grycie | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...year woman, she now pleads patriotic poverty. From 62 performances in the U. S. and Canada, she has turned over $130,000 to her country. Chorus from her hit song: We're going to 'ang old 'Itler from the very 'ighest bough of the biggest aspidistra in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Give Us the Tools-- | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...British Empire and a police captain's badge good in Santa Monica, Calif., Comedienne Gracie Fields arrived for a vacation in the U. S. after patriotically entertaining Tommies at the front. For Manhattan ship newsmen she sang this extra verse of her famous song, The Biggest Aspidistra* in the World: They're going to string old Hitler From the very highest branch Of the biggest aspidistra in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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