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Word: comined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canny, suave Eli Oberstein asks no embarrassing questions. His recordings bear such names as Johnny Jones, Willie Kelly. Oberstein's Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer and You'll Never Know, have rolled up sales of 200,000 discs. Irritated Boss Petrillo has been unable to find anything amiss. "It's very simple," remarks Eli Oberstein, "I pick up any tune I like, and the records just come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Petrillo Perplexed | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Although we sorta felt like orphinks during yesterday's graduation exercises, our day is a'comin'. With lotsa weekend liberty we ought to be completely relaxed for Commencement Tuesday. If we are able to see the platform at all, we'll do our best to get up there. And, did you know that we'll then get orders detaching us from here to report to the Harvard Graduate School of Business, as ensigns...

Author: By M. J. Reth, | Title: MIDSHIPMEN | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin' along to civilize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home to the Wars | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Most recent choices: Marching Along Together, I've Heard That Song Before, Comin' In On a Wing and a Prayer, There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, This Time, I Just Kissed Your Picture Goodnight, Roll Out the Barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hit Kit | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Auld Lang Syne. Then the people began to scatter, walking in pairs or groups past the gnarled skeletons of bombed-out houses. Most of them, men & women, were in uniform. They shouted "Happy New Year!" to strangers half seen in the dark, and they sang She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain. The Yankee tune, with its words Anglicized to Hi-yi, yippee, yippee-eye, was the latest craze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Another Year | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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