Word: backed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parade for the sixth week was a simple little ditty bringing the story up to date. Lyricist Tommie (Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree) Connor, who had written a set of words for an English version of the original Lilli song, had figured that most of her wartime admirers were back home with wives of their own; so, with Songsmith Johnny Reine providing matrimonial music, he had made an honest woman of her too. Sample from their The Wedding of Lilli Marlene...
...true niece of Bertie McCormick, Bazy could not resist a pat on the back for the Midwest as "the heart and soul and stability of the country" and the back of her hand for Washington, which she called "a parasite community." But she thought it her duty to settle among the parasites. As Bertie said: he and Bazy owed it to the U.S.-at a time when "the Administration and the State Department are disloyal"-to present "the American point of view in Washington...
...page anniversary edition, SRL gave book lovers a nostalgic look at news events all the way back to 1924. But what most SRL readers would like best were the reappraisals of books of the past quarter-century-though they would not necessarily share the harshness of most of SRL's critical judgments...
Most encouraging factor was the appearance of the $200 (or, rather, the ($199.95) television set on the market. It was a good set and, under liberalized installment-buying regulations, within reach of most U.S. pocketbooks. Commercial sponsors, after their summer desertion, were beginning to come back to the fold-TV networks have more business scheduled for this autumn than ever before...
...opening show she managed to inject a few bars of her favorite song. I Got Rhythm, and gave the full Merman treatment to three others. She portrayed a fight announcer ("Tiger is fighting back! He throws a left - a right - another left. Now he's bringing a right uppercut from the floor - now they're bringing Tiger up from the floor."). She played every character in a "Pageant of American Womanhood" that included Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and a hilarious Joan of Arc, as well as such authentic native daughters as Barbara Frietchie, Ruby Foo and Miriam...