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Word: swansong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last hair of the tiny mustache on his stiff upper lip, steps up to a curtain behind which he thinks an assassin is hiding. "Why must you do it?" his wife cries. "Because I must," he replies firmly. His answer, in fact the whole picture, is a sort of swansong of the white man who is beginning to stagger under his burden...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Drum | 4/13/1955 | See Source »

...local station for a little chat. "They tell me I can be jailed [possibly for six months]," said the major, as if remembering that Napoleon, too, had written his memoirs in captivity. "It was my last-ever flight," he said. "I meant it as a spectacular swansong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Mad Major | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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