Word: motif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Center should make crystal-clear its willingness to help raise cash as well as to wait several years if necessary for the proper opportunity for such a drive. Above all its stand must be respectful while firm enough to prevent the planned expenditure of $200,000 for a tablet-motif memorial from going forward...
Harvard's lost Generation upper classmen not in the Houses will get a fling at social life on Saturday night when the Union opens its doors to all members for a post-game dance featuring the music of Harry Marshard and a Dartmouth Green motif...
Rooming houses and likker stores were all sold out last Christmas and Friday night found the city's trees decorated in a Confederate flag motif. From many of these same trees hung nooses and signs saying, "For the first Damn Yankee who touches this flag...
...Cartwheels. Gracie's Working Party is shrewdly hooked up with a patriotic motif. Touring the British Isles, Gracie performs before large audiences of workers, as a part of Britain's current production drive. Britons are fondly familiar with the "low but clean" pattern of a Fields performance. There are 45 minutes of sentimental ballads, sung in an ear-jarring soprano that sometimes shrills up to high C, and comedy songs (like her famed The Biggest Aspidistra in the World), screeched out in unabashed Lancastrian...
...Yanks Are Coming! In other articles, Werth elaborated the mellow motif: "There are today perceptible signs of a desire for rapprochement with Britain. . . . The phrase 'the Anglo-Americans' is no longer favored. ... An ignorant old wife will tell you she knows for certain that Hitler is in America plotting. . . . In comparison, Britain is quite harmless...