Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alarmed. Huey Long, Bilbo and Boss Crump managed without grand opera; and grand opera north of the Mason & Dixon Line manages without Hague, Pendergast and Curley...
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME - Dixon Wecter - Haughton, Mifflin...
...Allmost Descureged." When Johnny Comes Marching Home is a timely history of homecomings from the U.S.'s three major wars : the Revolution, the Civil War, World War I. Author Dixon Wecter (The Saga of American Society; The Hero in America}, professor of English at the University of California, has written a fascinating study of the profound tension and misunderstanding between civilians and veterans, of civilians' short memories and seeming ingratitude, of veterans' increasing success in rewarding themselves through their organized political strength...
...began as an insurance salesman's teaser. Its publisher, lean, lively Glenn Burrs, was once a saxophonist of small distinction from Dixon, Ill. In 1933 he began selling insurance on the side and talked his partner Albert Lipschultz into financing a small throwaway sheet of musical chitchat for their dance band clients. The venture was a net loss, and Lipschultz finally sold out to Burrs...
...honor of the presentation of the Gutenberg bible by Mrs. Widener Dixon and George D. Widener, an exhibition of Incunabula will be on display in the Widener Memorial Room at Widener Library this week. The Bible, dating from about 1455, was presented to the College last...