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Word: deckers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teacher, got a Columbia University degree this year. Last week Messrs. Mishanec, Croft, Scaturo and 14 other young men of similar ages, backgrounds, prospective vo cations, acquired the rating and emoluments ($114 per month, with allowances) of second-class seamen, U. S. Navy. They slept in double-decker beds, jammed to gether in the neat, small Naval Air Reserve Station at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Airport. They stepped to the commands of a leathery Marine Corps sergeant. They scrubbed, greased, cranked, shoved, other wise manhandled a yellow Navy training plane, performed such other menial tasks as their sergeant required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Wings of Gold | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...Hollywood, Artist Richard Decker unveiled, with flourishes, his latest portrait: a smug, somewhat sinister Queen Victoria, with white wig, ample bosom, the unmistakable face of Funnyman W. C. Fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Other Decker "portraits": Harpo Marx as the Blue Boy, Fanny Brice as Mono, Lisa, Mickey Rooney as a Van Dyck sissy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Most important act of the Guild's early days was its tie-up with Shaw. Tackling his difficult Heartbreak House when nobody else would touch it, the Guild produced it successfully, next season took on Shaw's triple-decker Back to Methuselah. Of that play, Shaw told the Guild that his name had been worth $10,000 to them-they had figured to lose $30,000, lost only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: 21 Years After | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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