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Word: sailors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recommended that I be sent to the Odenweldschule, a very modern and experimental school in the woods. I arrived there in midwinter, and was led into a snow-covered enclosure where many little boys and girls hopped around merrily in the nude. I had on a heavy overcoat, a sailor suit, a flannel shirt, a union suit. I was peeled out of all this after a heroic fight and was left in the snow, naked and howling. My health improved from there on, and I spent most of the time making surrealistic paintings, once it was discovered that I liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...band of the roaring 20's grew rapidly through the days of white sailor caps and bow ties, but still lacked the bass drum, the Anderson medleys and the snap drills which gave it nation-wide fame and provoked high-school girls and college co-eds from as far as Texas to write touching letters to Bill Bingham pleading for a chance to be a Harvard drum majorette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Accents Crescendo of Fame With Ambitious Classical Program | 4/9/1947 | See Source »

...Beginning or the End (MGM) and Sinbad the Sailor (RKO Radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Early Spring Box Office | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...plugged Heartaches when nobody, even Weems, had thought of the record in ten years. Its revival to the point of the Decca re-issue was an absolutely single-handed job. Even the Charlotte press, not given to plugging radio, compares your story to reporting discovery of America by "local sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...Record. In Independence, Kans., an ex-sailor walked into the county recorder's office, presented a bad-conduct discharge from the Navy, demanded five certified copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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