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Word: brac (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Left. By the late John Barrymore: household furniture, bric-a-brac, an automobile, cash amounting to "$10,000 or less"; to his three children, Diana, 21, Dolores Ethel, 12, John Blythe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...brown moving van pulled up to the town house. It was probably late; Manhattan moving vans always are. Soon movers had the sidewalk littered with tables and bric-a-brac; they always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Word for War | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...straighten out the tangle and confusion of Lend-Lease red tape and to synchronize U.S. production and purchasing with British and Russian needs. The Beaver knew how to cut red tape. Whether the brilliant, bumptious outspoken millionaire was the right man to handle all the delicate bric-a-brac of human relationships involved was something else again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beaver Arrives | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...Clifford C. Fischer) is Broadway's latest attempt to revive vaudeville, and by far its best. It has its shortcomings, but at least it doesn't try, as previous shows have, to revive vaudeville by reviving decrepit vaudeville acts. Here & there it is cluttered with bric-a-brac from the old homestead; otherwise Priorities proves a cozy, informal meeting place for two generations of actors. Among the veterans is Lou Holtz, who, carrying the same old cane, cracking the same old jokes with the same old skill, acts as master of ceremonies-and Willie Howard with his long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Show in Manhattan | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...piece of brass out of its hat last week. President Roosevelt ordered the most sweeping reorganization in the War Department's history. An organization hitherto as strangely assembled as Topsy's hair was streamlined to bullet-shape. Out the window went bottlenecks, bureaus and bric-a-brac -and the fusty old general staff setup. All old sections were packed into three new ones: Air Force, Ground Force and Supply. On top remains Chief of Staff George C. Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Streamlined Army | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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