Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exchanged pessimisms. They said: Doesn't all that heel-clicking sicken you? Did you know that barges have started down the Danube with ack-ack equipment, tanks and ammunition? Did you hear that German girls threw flowers at the Jerries as they marched into Sibiu and Seghisoara? Isn't it awful that the Nazi G. H. Q. is to be in the building where Carol's guards used to stay? Wasn't it typical of the Germans to fly the whole Rumanian Air Force over our heads today, as if that would frighten...
...Canterbury's streets, Lydia Cecily Hill, 27, cabaret friend of the opulent Sultan of Johore, 67, was slain. The Sultan, who is acquainted also with the Franklin D. Roosevelts and Mae West, expressed deep sorrow and consoled Mother Hill. She well knew that the only reason he isn't her son-in-law was prudish pressure by the sahibs of Singapore, where the Sultan met the Hills, and by the British Government (TIME...
...Allan Roy Dafoe, only man who ever brought five human females into the world at once, affirmed: "America isn't masculine enough. And Canada is following suit in the trend toward femininity. It doesn't make for happiness...
...ludicrous comedy gliding to the syncopated mastery of an auburn-haired young woman named Le Verne. By way of encouragement to the patriotic spirit of the times, the production closes with a copper-tinted ballet entitled What's On The Penny, reminding the audience that "E Pluribus Unum . . . isn't on the peso, isn't on the lira, isn't on the franc...
...mere luck. Oil men say he never knows when to stop drilling. Before McCarthy, the unwritten rule on the Gulf Coast was: "When you haven't found it after going 200 feet into the Frio (oil-indicating sand), start tearing down the rig because it just isn't there." In League City he drilled 600 feet into the Frio before finding one of the most important pay sands in Texas...