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Word: rhyming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reason & Rhyme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ELECTION EXTRA. IT WAS SUBLIME. IT HAD REASON AND RHYME. AND IT CAME OUT ON TIME. WE IN CANADA TRUST AND HOPE THAT THE THIRD TERM OF F. D. R. WILL MAKE A FOUR-STAR FINAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

Otherwise, Rhythm on the River (not to be confused with Rhythm on the Range) is like the best Bing Crosby musicals which preceded it. With the quiet simplicity of a nursery rhyme it unrolls the fable of a lazy composer (Crosby) who collaborates with a pretty, ambitious lyricist (Mary Martin) in knocking out the popular tunes which make Basil Rathbone a Manhattan social superba. When Crosby and Martin set out to write under their own names they are accused of stealing the Rathbone style, tramp the edges off their heels in vain visits to song publishers. With this tissue-thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 9, 1940 | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...dogs couldn't sleep and the cat didn't know what to make of it." Said he: "It was all due to my Southern charm." From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare to his father, Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

From Cophill House School near Oxford to the Admiralty in London went a note and a school rhyme from Master William Shakespeare Geoffrey Hithersay Shakespeare, Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, whose boss is Winston Churchill. The note: "You can show it to Winston if you like." The rhyme: "My U-boats are under the ocean, My Graf Spee is under the sea, My Hitler is in a commotion, Oh don't mention Winston to me." Proud Papa Shakespeare read it at an Anglo-American Community Chest luncheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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