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Word: rhyming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thriving, too, is that great standby, the pantomime-ostensibly for youngsters but, like the American circus, something that most parents can't wait to take the children to. Embroidering a fairy tale or nursery rhyme with slapstick and music, the pantomime is rich in traditions. The hero is always played by a girl, the ugly old dame by a man; and there is usually a stuffed cat or dog. Biggest pantomime hit is Humpty Dumpty, breaking all records at the Coliseum to the tune of ?9,000 a week. Its animal is a stuffed terrier, that, like the rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Quiet but Happy | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...were hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written by the Queen when young." ("Really!" snorted Her Majesty, "Never could the Queen in her whole life write one line of poetry serious or comic or make a Rhyme even.") A Miss Low asked "if she can be informed whether Your Majesty as a child liked dolls." ("The Queen has no hesitation in saying that she was quite devoted to dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Letter-Opener | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...illustrate my point, I once more must beg to tweak back what remains of my poetic fringe, still my clanging bell bottoms and delve into rhyme with the following ditty entitled...

Author: By Ysoman Brill, | Title: Electronics School | 6/11/1943 | See Source »

...spirited Management class last Wednesday made us think of that old rhyme, "No more pencils, no more books, etc." And "Killer" Grew will positively accept any and all nominations to run for any office on the V. W. A. (Vacationing Workers of America) ticket...

Author: By M. J. Reth, | Title: MIDSHIPMEN | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

...lifted for the post-exam week-end. You'll be free to go where you please from Noon on Saturday, May 15th, to Midnight (2400) Tuesday, the 18th. So, go on and make that New York date. But, "See here," don't you come back late. (well, well, a rhyme...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

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