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Word: demmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dem Bums is going formal. For their 28 night games this season, the Brooklyn Dodgers will wear glistening uniforms of satin-white piped with blue for home games, blue piped with white for road games. Purpose: to keep fans' minds off the quality of the baseball, which will be a motley of under & over draft age, piped with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Satin in Flatbush | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...sheer curiosity I looks at th' small type on th' second page, an' y' know how bad th' printin' situation's got? Some damn fool put a 1943 dateline on th' paper. Dem's d' conditions dat prevail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: See the New 'Poon Just Out? Freshman Benchley's Good | 2/15/1944 | See Source »

...perfect possession. He worked in a motley of joints, including Chinatown's Chatham Club. Around 1916 Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner, I used to have a racin' form instead of notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Edwards), popped in later. He took a look around the Club Durant and bought a piece of it. Says Jimmy: "If I didn't open dat club, and become a boss, I wouldn't a stood up and started singing. . . . I knew everybody, started to give dem da big hello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...sang a song called Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes . . . the audience kept applauding, to see how much further [my eyes] could pop out without something tragic happening . . . the encouragement . . . prompted me to enter show business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 50 Years Off the Bowery | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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