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Word: lis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help the proposed committee in its task, some 400 Canadians had already sent flag designs, ranging from dull to weird, into Ottawa (see cut). Most of them favored a maple leaf. Other ideas: a beaver, a fir tree, wheat, the French fleur-de-lis, stars, miniature Union Jacks, a design like the U.S. flag, with a stripe for each of the Dominion's nine provinces. CCFer Gladys Strum proposed a flag picturing "a buffalo, a beaver, a maple leaf and a mountain. Yes, and we had better have a river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Wanted: a Flag | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

After a while Eleanor Roosevelt walked back through a wide opening in the hedge. She stood alone, silently watching the workmen shoveling soil into her husband's grave. Then, silent and alone, she walked away again. On her black dress she wore the small pearl Fleur-de-Lis which he had given her as a wedding present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Bugler: Sound Taps | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

This continuous alert against attacks from other services has been shared by Holland Smith. He is so Marine-minded that he has been known to argue against hidebound Navy thinking with his blonde, six-footer only son John Victor (Annapo lis '34), until recently a destroyer commander in the Mediterranean, now aide to Admiral Leahy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Old Man of the Atolls | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...theater is that it's for the most part too shopworn. The bright comedy moments and briefly vivid scenes are swallowed up in the pat speeches, dime-a-dozen situations, stagey gestures, footlight heroics. Playwright Williams has let his memories of a hundred bad plays blot out lis memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Totem Pole last week turned columnist. H(arry) Allen Wolfgang Smith, 33, who went to work at 16 on the Huntington (Ind.) Press, made lis name working for U.P. and the New York World-Telegram with such gems as a story of a nudist camp (written stark naked on the scene), weather reports ("WEATHER NOTE: Bad for grandmothers"), an interview with Simone Simon. (Without a word he tickled her vigorously. When she protested but did not squeal, he said he was only testing a Hollywood report that she was ticklish.) His book, Low Man on a Totem Pole, based chiefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Totem Column | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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