Word: lily
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anniversary of her sister's death. Sister Lili died in 1918, a few years after winning the coveted Grand Prix de Rome.* Nadia considered her sister's talent greater than her own. In the large, cold chapel of Paris' La Trinite Church, 100 people gathered to attend a low Mass for Lili. As she does every year, Nadia Boulanger had arranged a music program in Lili's memory. Nadia sat in a front pew; she did not play the organ music-though she is a top organist...
Born. To Errol Leslie Flynn, 37, swashbuckler of cinema, café and courtroom, and Nora Eddington Flynn, 23: their second daughter, his third child (he has a son by his former wife, Cinemactress Lili Damita); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Rory. Weight...
...months ago, Britain's WAAFs (R.A.F. equivalent of WACs) were forbidden to sing the sentimental German marching song Lili Marlene because it might give German prisoners of war ideas about fraternization...
...Americans, C'est Fini sounded like a combination of Lili Marlene and I'll Never Smile Again. When they began to ask for it in every bar in southern France, the words were translated to English, the title was changed to Symphonic. By last week it was the No. 1 song hit of France. At Maxim's in Cannes, Yolande, the French Hildegarde, sang it. So did lesser entertainers from Monte Carlo to Marseilles...
Germans insisted it was an old Bavarian drinking song. Americans and British thought it was one of their own. Anyhow, they all sang it. The Beer Barrel Polka became the Tipperary of World War II, rivaled in popularity only by Lili Marlene, which had more homesick appeal, but less oompah...