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Word: glocca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will cost paying customers from $17 to $65 a day. The windup was a glittering ball in the chandelier-hung ballroom. At its height, the Duke of Windsor, a good amateur hand at the drums, joined Meyer Davis's band and beat the skins (How Are Things in Glocca Morra?) as he did when he visited Greenbrier 29 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Housewarming | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...Things in Glocca Morraf, hit Manhattan before the show did. The brightest of the ditties, When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich, fills out a hilarious dream fashion-show in which the sharecroppers doll up in fantastic mailorder finery. Actor Sharpe, specially imported from Eire, makes a lively Finian, and David Wayne an immensely engaging leprechaun. Finian's Rainbow is not lacking in good things. What it really needed was an implacable blue pencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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