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Word: oles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boss Ed wants no independent candidate challenging his well-oiled, 34-year-old state machine, particularly anyone like Roy Acuff, whose Grand Ole Opry radio program has an audience of 130 NBC stations. Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys are known in every village town hall and crossroads school in Tennessee. Hundreds of admirers flow into Nashville to attend his Saturday-night NBC broadcast ; thousands listen to his nasal singing. And if Acuff can transfer his popularity to politics, he may yet give Crump the Memphis Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Arrow's Target | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Speaking of casualties, Middle Thayer had a bit of excitement when several rooms were given an early Spring Cleaning by Ole Man Conflagration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flotsam and Jetsam of Company E | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

...Most famed Bairnsfather cartoon: Old Bill, peering from a shell-hole crater in No Man's Land, tells his grumbling companion: "Well, if yer knows a better 'ole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartoonist Soldier | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

What will also never cease to amaze me is that the gentlement in New didn't gobble up such a golden opportunity. Blame it on "dat ole debbil Commercialism...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...little consolation the men of Harvard will have from this affair is that Duke broadcasts from the Hurricane nearly every night at 10:45. WNAC, which should be carrying it, does not, only WOR, 700 kilocycles. "Dat ole debbil, he knows...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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