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Word: bombo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ballistic exports, still examining the two smoke bombo which the robbers used to distract attention during their crime, said that the implements could very possibly be war surplus material of the type currently being distributed in New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Bandits' Escape Car Is Found in City | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Jolson, looking like "Bombo" in a Senegalese fez. Already a veteran of U.S.O. tours in Alaska, the Pacific, the Caribbean, he was now back from Africa and Sicily. He too plumped for newer films for the troops, reported: "They don't want Shakespeare. They're kids, they're babies-they want light stuff, but no legitimate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entertainers | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...their engineering feats in moving Gulliver from the coast to their diminutive capital, graceful is the King's effort to dance with Gulliver's finger for a partner. But the closest Gulliver's Travels comes to invention of Disney calibre are Sneak, Snoop and Snitch, King Bombo's secret agents, to whom he sends letters beginning: "Dear Spies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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