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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leach condemed those who had faith in our embroyo defense program, our air force still on order, and "the gentleman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who calls himself a 'two-fisted isolationist'." Leach had interrogated Verne Marshall on the New England Town Meeting of the Air last week, when the latter remarked, "Boy, what a question-asker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEACH BLASTS LINDBERGHS, MARSHALL | 1/22/1941 | See Source »

...their composers, as "strictly from hunger." In other words, they stink, and no two ways about it. That includes everything, from God Bless America, I Am An American, He's My Uncle, (Sam--how did you guess?), right down (and I do mean down) to Ballad For Americans, the latter designed to appeal to those intellectuals still hanging on to the battered remains of a party line. (Although I'll qualify this by saying that Paul Robeson's voice is definitely worth the corny lyrics you're forced to wade through. Robeson could give you the weather report...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 1/17/1941 | See Source »

...return from their Babylonian captivity). Most authorities say Jesus was 33 when He died; Dr. Olmstead thinks He was nearly 50. He cuts down the accepted period between Baptism and Crucifixion from nearly four years to less than two, fixing the former date late in 28 A.D. and the latter on April 7, 30 A.D., the only day about that time when Passover came late in the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bib Lit | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...picked up by some "adult Bohemians." At the end he is on the verge of rebuilding the world through a Gloucestershire bacon-cooperative and handicraft-eisteddfod. World War II interrupts these frowsy plans, ends this "record of what many young men in England thought and experienced during the latter half of the vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One More Young Man | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...twelve-inch coupling features a number of things, including Helen Forrest singing The Man I Love, Benny's clarinet, a bit of Cootie's trumpet, the best sax section in the world, and some extremely imaginative orchestration by Eddie Sauter on the reverse, Benny Rides Again. On the latter, Sauter ignores any conventional form and just lets his mood carry him away--with the help of the band (COLUMBIA). . . George Avakian, of Yale and Columbia Records, recently had the good fortune to discover some previously unissued Louis Armstrong sides, which COLUMbia has just released. Most interesting is Ory's Creole...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 1/10/1941 | See Source »

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