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Word: marimbas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convinced that our mechanistic age has not destroyed an appreciation of more tender moods." Any one that heard the symphony would have to admit that those words apply extremely well to the music, I am sure, and if the above quotation is an "elaborate pronouncement," then I am a marimba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 29, 1943 | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

Plaint. Near Philadelphia, a neighbor of Mrs. Bobbie Ernst sued to subdue her marimba playing, charged she had played it "for more than five years . . . almost daily, approximately six hours a day and until late hours of the night . . . plays Jingle Bells whenever she observes the plaintiff, and Anchors Aweigh when a certain naval officer is in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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