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Word: delphia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fair Warning. In St. Louis, Delphia Mercuric explained to police why she had fired three shots from a revolver over her fiance's head: he had suggested postponing the wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 9, 1949 | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Virgil Thomson: Five Portraits (Phila delphia Orchestra, Virgil Thomson conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The com poser's five friends (among them Pablo Picasso, Conductor Alexander Smallens) can't be as dull as his musical sketches of them. Performance: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...news and since the censorship which cloaked [Roosevelt's] ended with his death [TIME, April 23], you may be interested to know that there was another [railroad] route which President Roosevelt used almost ex clusively in recent years. He traveled on the Baltimore & Ohio from Washington to Phila delphia; from there his train went over the Reading to Bound Brook, N.J., where it traveled over the Jersey Central Lines to Jersey City, and on to Highland, N.Y., over the New York Central's West Shore Railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 21, 1945 | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...Sergeant Delphia E. Garris: "It's just something that has got to be done. We have got to lick those bastards in order to get out of the army. That's our main thought-get rid of the Germans in order to get out of the army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Just Before the Battle | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

They number 19 young, talented sing ers, who expertly shake 19 operas-in-English out of their sleeves. Newest Phila delphia stunt is to have a tenor sing the incredible quasi-male operatic roles usu ally warbled by women in tights-Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Faust, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlofsky in The Bat, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera with Harmonica | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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