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Word: card (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nosed, uproarious zany and let it go at that. But the fact that Jimmy's nose is big is no more important per se than the fact that W. C. Fields's nose is red. Jimmy, like Fields, is no gagster, however appealing, depending on the card indexes of teams of gagmen (he has used many of the same jokes for years). Jimmy, like Fields, is a high comedian, who can convulse both children and sophisticates. Not only do millions laugh at him, but they laugh for a rich variety of reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Although no records were set, the team looks good for future dates, despite the handicap of limited opportunities for practice because of crowded conditions in the Indoor Pool. Next event on the squads card are the intra-mural races against the Army team on Carnival Night, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAL ULEN'S CRIMSON MERMEN DROWN WEAK TECH SWIMMERS | 1/11/1944 | See Source »

Cumbersome, inefficient bookkeeping will be replaced by a simple pay-record card to be carried by the bluejacket wherever he goes. In theory, presentation of the card to any paymaster on payday will get Jack his money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Sailors' Pay | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...drawing of Arpad in a wheel chair, holding a blood donor card: "Arpad just looks as if he's worn out from donating his thimbleful of gore to the Red Cross. Actually he's a wreck from having mulled too long over the question of what it is when people say it looks like rain. What looks like rain? People look out a window at Cramholtz & Eder's furniture store and say, 'Oh, it looks like rain.' What does-Cramholtz & Eder's store?. . . Then of course there is the inevitable answer to it looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fowl Play | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...Germany from Moscow last week went a Christmas parcel wrapped in propaganda TNT. It was a big enough parcel to touch the hearts of 250,000 families bereaved by the debacle at Stalingrad. The card enclosed was signed by Lieut. General Walther von Seydlitz, a veteran of Stalingrad and now vice chairman of the Free German Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stalingrad Story | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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