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Word: tweedlee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Yellow Rose of Texas (Mitch Miller orchestra and chorus; Columbia). With a rat-a-tat-tat of snare drums and a fifelike tweedle, the Texan (presumably) chorus chants about the girl back home. The tune, which comes from the Civil War, is so appealing that it has risen to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Tom made another jump, turned round, pointed out of the window, and said in a loud voice something like "twanky tweedle." Both knew that neither the gesture nor the phrase was meant to convey a meaning. They simply expressed the fact that for Tom this was an important and exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: THE YOUNGEST GENERATION | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Actually the titans are Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum to the fellow who clicks his dial from channel to channel hoping to chance upon something more enervating than Howdy-Doody or the lady wrestlers. Justice Frankfurter must have been trying to convey something of this horror and nausea when, in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Barbarism, With Color | 5/31/1951 | See Source »

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