V-Day V-J Day, August 15, 1945, celebrating victory over Japan and marking the end of the Pacific phase of World War II.
Veronica Lake blond film actress (1919-73) made famous in the 1940s for a hairstyle that concealed one side of her face. She appeared in This Gun for Hire, Hold that Blonde, and The Blue Dahlia.
viewing gauze a layer of opaque cloth placed over the face of a corpse before public viewing, often to conceal deterioration or deep wounds.
When I was a child I spake as a child, I thought as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. verse eleven from I Corinthians 13, one of the most quoted chapters in the New Testament Bible, which deals with charity.
Zapata Mexican revolutionary (1878-1919).
zoot suits flashy, disproportionate men's fashions of the early 1940s featuring oversized shoulder pads, thigh-length jackets, and drastically narrowed pants.
