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Word: filially (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father and his 18-year-old son-the father a scholar, the son a filial zealot-set out to record the folk songs of the U.S. When John Lomax had broken his son to the trail, young Alan went on alone. Between them the Lomaxes recorded 10,000 songs, many of which had never been heard more than five miles from the prisons, corrals or lumber camps where the Lomaxes found them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Miserable but Exciting Songs | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

First he tried it out on some traveling companions, 27 females (two planeloads) of the royal harem. Four U.S. flyers (who had stayed in Arabia to train the native crew) goggled as brawny slaves lugged the ladies' luggage aboard. But when worldly Prince Feisal, performing a filial chore, shepherded the passengers into the cabin, the crewmen looked the other way. They had been carefully briefed: to stare at the veiled and giggling travelers was to invite death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Ladies First | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

Even after the Bolshevik Revolution the North American church* did not deny the general principle of its subordination to the patriarchate of Moscow, but from then on the church actually practiced independence-after almost 125 years of filial allegiance to the Russian Synod...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Atmosphere of Freedom | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Most ironic fate of all was reserved for surly, misanthropic Whistler. A painting he had coldly entitled Arrangement in Grey and Black so captivated the despised, incurably sentimental public that they retitled it Mother and made it what it is today-America's favorite picture of filial piety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Art's Sake | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

What has kept him to the P-D's vigorously crusading ways is a more-than-filial admiration of Pulitzer Sr. and all he stood for. Each year, on the anniversary of the elder Pulitzer's death, presses stop and lights go out for one minute. Busts of the Hungarian immigrant boy who became one of journalism's greats adorn the P-D building. And the platform that Pulitzer Sr. wrote is repeated each day atop the editorial page: "Always fight demagogues of all parties . . . never be satisfied with merely printing news . .. . never be afraid to attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Never Be Afraid | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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