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Word: dixons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others, they play games, eat cheese and crackers, listen to Joan's puns, which come every few minutes. Typical pun was struck off while Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic were discussing what fun Critic George Jean Nathan has tearing them apart. Quipped Joan: "South of the Nathan and Dixon line, eh?" Sometimes admiring Brian Aherne begs Joan to repeat a pun she has almost forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Apr. 15, 1940 | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Reporters from the South have been conspicuous among the Nieman Fellows. By their very presence, they have called attention to a significant fact: that journalism in South is a far different thing from its counterpart in the North. Below the Mason and Dixon Line nearly every town of any size has at least one independent newspaper, working through its editorial policy for the good of the community it serves. The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which at long last got the goods on the Long machine in Louisiana, is only an outstanding example among many others of the same type. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLANTER'S PUNCH | 4/9/1940 | See Source »

Freshmen tired of clambering into torturous stiff shirts and paying outrageous sums of money for a dance are firm in support of the Union Committee's informal Spring Dance to be held on Wednesday evening in the Union. Don Gahan and the Dixon Sisters will supply the music, and the Union Dining Room will be open to Freshmen and their dates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Spring Dance to Be Held Tomorrow Night | 3/26/1940 | See Source »

Featuring the Dixon Sisters and Don Gahan's Orchestra, the annual Freshman Spring Dance this year will be held Wednesday evening, March 27 from 9 to 12 in the Union, according to an announcement made yesterday by George E. Putnam, Jr. '43, chairman of the Union Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Committee Announces Spring Dance for Freshmen | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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