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Word: boojum (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Gypsy Rose Lee, 29, literate ecdysiast; and Alexander Kirkland, 40, Manhattan actor-producer: their first child, a son; two months after her Reno divorce, one day before his marriage to strawberry-blond post-debutante Phyllis Adams, 21, theatrical tyro (The Snark was a Boojum); in Manhattan. Name: Eric Lee. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Author Charles Christian Wertenbaker, 44, is chief military correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Shrewd, affable, tweedy "Wert," a seasoned reporter and able writer whose previous books have ranged from Boojum (a college novel) to A New Doctrine for the Americas, went to England in March, spent the three months before D-day diligently acquainting himself with Allied leaders, men and material. He gives full marks to General Eisenhower, but his particular heroes are Lieut. Generals Walter Bedell ("Beedle") Smith, the planner, and Omar Bradley, the U.S.' field commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feat | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...Snark Was A Boojum," a comedy by Owen Davis from the novel of the same name by Richard Shattuck, opens August 16 at the Shubert. Alex Yokel, producer of "Three Men On A Horse," is presenting this comedy in association with Jay Faggon. The play concerns the race for a promising legacy and the birth of a child...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE OFFING | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

...whether he could round up a quorum to vote adjournment. Many a Congressman had already slipped away, would hate to plod back just for the formality of a vote. If he did not get his quorum, the 76th Congress, still technically in session, might, like the hunters of the boojum, softly and silently vanish away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Homesick | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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