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Word: dee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race for president of the Class of 1953 are Joyce Bisbee, Isabel Fulton, Eleanor Levine, Elinor Meiss, Martha McCabe, and Dee Waelder. Vice-presidential candidates are Nancy Barrow, Kitty Barbehenn, Wendy Cowie, Diana Crane, Sally Lord, and Holly Walker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe '53 Meets | 11/1/1949 | See Source »

...hear it, you feel it"), right-hand ripples, thick, murky chords ("Right now I've got chords way ahead of bop"). She even took a rare fling at singing one of her latest, a "five-course" satire on bebop called The Land of Oo-bla-dee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Land of Oo-bla-dee | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Fiddle, we know, is diddle: and diddle, we take it, is dee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Towering Grandfather | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Twenty-seven years ago dusty, somnolent little Whitney, Tex. (pop. 2,000) became the recipient of a homely but extremely functional civic improvement: Druggist D. ("Doctor Dee") Scarborough installed a pine bench in the shade outside his store. The bench soon became as integral a part of Whitney's life as the Plaza in Santa Fe or Fountain Square in Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Battle of the Bench | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...bets, and wound up at Sherry's, a nearby gin mill patronized by racketeers, movie stars, detectives and high-priced prostitutes. Mickey settled as always in Booth 12, which commands a view of all exits and entrances. One of his boys picked up a movie doll named "Dee" David, and brought her over. Just before 4 a.m. Mickey got ready to leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Clay Pigeon | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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