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Word: casa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary Churchill, a glamor girl in anybody's country, espied her famed father, the First Sea Lord, trying to sneak in like a tired bulldog to an inconspicuous table. She promptly dragged him out to sit with her own café society group, including the orchidaceous Marquesa de Casa Maury and brilliant carrot-haired Editor Brendan Bracken of The Banker. Spotting "Winston," the whole party livened up, everyone sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, and at midnight the Duchess of Grafton permitted something about as daring as has ever been seen at a top-drawer Mayfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Instead of Feathers | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...Onyx Club has closed and it looks like for good. . . . Sonny Dunham of Casa Loma fame, starting another band again. . . . Not content with raising general hell with the Metropolitan Opera and its "great gold curtain," blind pianist Alee Templeton has just developed a fifteen tone scale. The only instrument he can find which it will work on is an old zither, so unfortunately his invention is a bit limited...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

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