Word: lily
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meet German competition. British broadcasters had started airing the song themselves-an English version was sweeping England. Neutral Swedes and Swiss were crooning it. The song's original name was The Song of the Young Sentry. But millions, all over Europe, knew the catchy little ditty better as Lili Marleen...
...once, Lili Marleen, as once, Lili Marleen...
With you, Lili Marleen, "with you, Lili Marleen...
...money. He managed all right by selling his schoolmates his mail from home. First as midshipman, later as Lieut. Windsor, he served eight years in the Royal Navy. When one of his ships, H.M.S. Durban, put into San Diego, Calif. and Lieut. Windsor frolicked for two unauthorized days with Lili Damita and her film friends, he atoned for the next 30 days, confined to his cabin. His health, never so vigorous as his spirit, waned in the Navy and in 1929, when he was 26, he left the service...
...Lili Damita divorced Errol Flynn, charged him with "paying more attention to his yachts than me." She got custody of their infant son, half interest in some $150,000 worth of property, $1,500 a month as long as the actor stays in the $180,000-a-year class, a minimum of $9,000 a year if he drops below...