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Word: spokenly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leech" White is reputed to have a store laid by for just such emergencies as these. See him if you're burning old slat reports in the brier like Bob Shepherd and others. Lenn White, that soft spoken friend of Professor Cunningham, gave us the word on the Sixth War Loan drive. After the little quiz yesterday, (answer rumored to be in the six hundreds), you'll know how to make the proper checkage. Buy bonds and make a down payment on one of Lt. Towne's special Hari Kari Kits...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 12/1/1944 | See Source »

...couple of frogs were dining at the Ritz. Complained one: "You haven't spoken to me all evening. You're angry at me." "It isn't that at all," explained the other, "I just can't talk tonight. I've got a man in my throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joke Book | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...people did more than reject a tradition against extra Presidential terms. They reversed a historic decision of 25 years ago, when the U.S. embraced isolationism after World War I. In the 1944 election no isolationist could find comfort. The people had spoken for international cooperation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: What Happened | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...grey, foggy day when he was sworn in by Army officers, Herr X looked nervous and tense, stared straight in front of him, spoke only when spoken to. A correspondent asked him: "Do you have a house here?" Herr X answered carefully: "Ja, but it is not standing." As the oath of office was read aloud, he listened attentively, solemnly responded: "Ja." Next day Herr X climbed into a captured German car and drove into his bomb-scarred municipality in search of equally reliable citizens to be his councilors, civil officers, policemen. As Bürgermeister, his own authority will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Who Wants to Be Mayor? | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Married. British Army Major John Jacob Astor, 26, youngest son of out spoken Tory M.P. Lady Astor (without her approval) ; and Anna Inez ("Chiquita") Carcano, 23, vivacious daughter of the Argentine Ambassador to Britain; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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