Word: davision
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The chicken and jellied salmon disappeared. The Meyer Davis orchestra, which has played dance music for every President since Woodrow Wilson, played tunes the bridal pair had requested. Bandleader Davis had even composed a new tune, A Song of Happiness, for the occasion.
The first complete U.S. casualty list of the war was at last pried loose from the Army & Navy last week by Elmer Davis' new Office of War Information. The casualties, except for the Philippine Commonwealth Army (whose losses are not accurately known):
After two years in Life With Father she was spotted by Goldwyn, who now boasts: "I knew she was a great actress before the first act was over." At any rate, he signed her to play Bette Davis' daughter in The Little Foxes. The reward for her performance was...
Tap Roots is exciting as history and as a story. The little-known history it highlights is the rise and bloody fall of the Free State of Jones (novelized as Lebanon), a county in southeastern Mississippi which seceded from Mississippi soon after Mississippi seceded from the Union. Like many Southerners...
> Bank Employe Thomas Potter Davis Jr. was "slapped continuously, forced to sit Japanese fashion on iron crossbars and was turned over a prison chair while several policemen leaned their weight on him. Finally he was slapped across the face with his own sport shoes."