Word: junior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...niggers and Jews of New York are working hand in hand. . . . This is a damnable, Communist, poisonous piece of legislation." When "The Man" Bilbo finally tired, he was spelled by Mississippi's junior Senator, James Oliver Eastland, who can "coon-shout" with the best of them. He took another tack: "We are dealing with an inferior race...
...placed first in U.S. sheet-music sales and fourth in radio performances. But the lyrics had been thoroughly scrubbed up. Veteran fathers, momentarily alarmed by the melody the bobby-soxers were singing, were quickly reassured. Songwriter Moe Jaffe's modernized maid, as coolly respectable as a Junior League Nurses' Aide, has the situation well in hand; her sailor is as wholesome as an Eagle Scout...
Harvard will graduate the largest group of officers as it presents degrees to 86 army candidates and to 42 from the Navy. These candidates will, upon graduation, become first lieutenants in the Army, or naval lieutenants, junior grade...
Hollywood went haywire, spending a known $3,740,000 (as against last season's impressive $2,500,000) on some of the highest-priced merchandise in its history: Life With Father and The Voice of the Turtle fetched $500,000 each, plus extras; Dear Ruth, $450.000; Junior Miss, $400,000. Hollywood was even paying $100,000 and $150,000 for Broadway flops...
...evident to all who attended, the Junior dance was quite enjoyable and provided several forms of distinctive entertainment. For instance, Neale Gow jitterbugged with a blonde before a gaping audience until he could no longer untwine his long legs from his partner...