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Word: lil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Lillian Smith, in the October issue of Progressive Education, reported verbatim a typical seminar. Miss Lil (as the pupils call her) is relaxed on the greensward, spinning an allegory. Her girls are gathered around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pink Egg | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

...inaccessible outposts as Moose Pass, he charges as high as $25 a job. Many of the pianos he tunes are elegant relics of the Gold Rush. At Petersburg he recently ministered to a massive old model that had made music in '98 for Klondike Kate and Diamond Tooth Lil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tuners & Tuning | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...character's name was "Lil Thin Dyme" or "Doleful Dogie," Sample line: "Ole Taxes Drainger, he done rode me down ... he done mowed me, and he done throwed me down. Ole Taxes Drainger, he sho' did slow me down. His pollatix is 'fulla trix-he herds us hix with bats and brix-Ole Sir Taxy Waxy-he sho' do make me burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

Engaged. Martha O'Driscoll, 21, Tulsa-born cinema blonde ("Daisy Mae" in Lil Abner); and Lieut. Commander Richard Donald Adams, 34, flat-top chief engineer; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

MERVIN LYSING finally brought out his wife who just got in from Minnesota and it's no wonder that he hasn't put in much time in Thayer N-68 of late ... He even played his room-mates the dirty trick of taking his radio over to the Lil Woman...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: SCUTTLEBUTT | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

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