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Word: crepes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into second place and let Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat and cap with feathered mercury wings. She wore her jeweled flamingo on her shoulder, diamonds on her ears. She smiled at the cheering crowds from under a nose-length, peekaboo, white-dotted veil. Her husband gaily waved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Duchess' Tooth | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...Jacobs' passing would have. With Arturo Godoy and Tony Galento in line for another shot at Joe Louis' crown (Galento is scheduled to meet Max Baer in a tuneup at Jersey City May 28), it looked as if Galento might drop out of the picture. In his crepe-draped saloon, Two-Ton Tony blubbered: "I can't go on widout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: We Wuz Robbed | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...claw and smoky of breath. From a huge clock over a trapdoor at one end of the room sprang a man dressed as a rabbit. A harangue was made on his record during the year. At the stroke of midnight emerged a laughably fierce dragon made of tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted by six men. Soon Chungking's elite-cabinet ministers, generals, ambassadors, lovely ladies-linked themselves onto the dragon's hindquarters and went into a stamping, winding, lurching dragon dance exactly like those of the antique Ming and Tang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Rabbit into Dragon | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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