Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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It all boils down to a matter of one's definition of the two words. For years after the appearance of "Jazz," the word was baffling because people applied it indiscriminately to the original Negro improvisations and to the overblown dance arrangements of Paul Whiteman. So, too, with the word...
Lesson in Defeat. In the early days of the war the Air Ferrying Command grew spasmodically, constantly hamstrung by the demand for combat planes-and the general confusion. What air transport there was in battle zones was done largely by combat pilots in war craft, which were loaded to the...
Rule-of-thumb rationing down the line to the ultimate consumer has resulted in all kinds of inequalities. States with local liquor control compounded the confusion; 13 of the 17 liquor-monopoly states have instituted rationing. Thus the per capita quota runs from a pint a week in Virginia to...
During the spring season, things straightened themselves out, although a little confusion was caused by the many baseball and softball games, necessitating late season double headers. It was this poor weather which kept Kirkland from winning the baseball championship until they had played a double header last Saturday.
British Army major Coleman, who has lost his memory, escapes from an insane asylum in the confusion of armistice celebrations. Greer Garson helps him evade the authorities, and they eventually marry, settling down to a peaceful, idyllic English country existence. At Liverpool on business, Coleman is struck by a car...