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Word: oles (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orchid for Bilbo & "Ole Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1944 | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

From a "little ole red schoolhouse" through Baylor University at Waco to the University of Texas for a law course, Tom did well at his books. Otherwise he failed to distinguish himself much. He acquired a couple of nicknames: "Double-Barrel Shotgun" Connally, a tribute to his skinniness, and "Talking Tom," a tribute to his wagging tongue. His college days were briefly interrupted when he volunteered for the Spanish-American War; but his regiment saw no action. Settling down to law practice in Marlin (pop. then: 3,092) after the war, he found business none too brisk. Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate & the Peace | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Ole) Olson & (Chic) Johnson, hellza-poppers, told United Press Hollywood correspondent Frederick Othman that their monkey-wrench minds were already at work on the sets of their new snow: Jerks Berserk. Some of their newest secret weapons: eight seats in the third row which drop customers into the cellar, hot-water drinking fountains, dachshunds coached to steal the shoes of foot-easing women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

John Dixon, Negro tenor, will also entertain at the same meeting by singing "Eili-cili." "Dark Eyes," and "Ole Man River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Allport Will Discuss Minorities at Meeting | 1/11/1944 | See Source »

...lodge, the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way; Ruthie Stem-bottom, a family friend; Godfrey Dimlok, who invented a bicycle that could say "mama"; the Brick Mush (Vic & Sade's favorite breakfast food) salesman, who cries almost all of the time; Bluetooth Johnson; Cora Bucksaddle; Ole Chinbunny; Rishigan Fishigan of Sishigan, Michigan; Smelly Clark, and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vic & Sade | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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