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...plane. Dixie proudly read Rear Admiral Frederick Sherman's "well done" over the loudspeaker, and congratulated his crew for its safety record. About that time a sailor who had dozed off on the struts under the No. 2 elevator fell overboard. Angry Dixie flushed brick-red at the blot on the Ti's record. When a destroyer picked up the sailor and returned him, Dixie got on the loud speaker again: "If anyone wants to see that smart young fellow, you can find him in the brig on bread and water." But Dixie softened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Captain Dixie and the Ti | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

Perplexed and questioning, a sad Ibis fluttered back and forth along the Bow Street clothing-store annex with quizzical eye and mournful heart. "Boola, boola," the Blot sobbed; "no more Dutch white lead tiles for sale, but we're expecting a supply of Gothic arches from New Haven shortly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ibis Queries Erring Lampy in Tragedy of Shrieking Door | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

...insincere Blot was a taunting the Jester, a new Jester without the tradition worship of the old masters. Light dawned in Ibis intellect: unwitting Lampy had bestowed the Eli sky-blue tint to creaking portals that shrieked their protest in hues of yellow. The bird groaned and returned to frustrated vigil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ibis Queries Erring Lampy in Tragedy of Shrieking Door | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

...Whose only regimental blot is their surrender at Yorktown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 17, 1944 | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

This was not the fault of the war, although this was the blackest of weeks for the enemy on both sides of the world. The steady flow of huge headlines-Cherbourg, Saipan, Vitebsk-could neither blot the Republican convention off the front pages nor out of Americans' minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Dewey Takes Over | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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