Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, Chippie had changed some, but not her voice. It was still brash and undisciplined, often nasally unmusical and handicapped by careless phrasing. But at her unpredictable best, Chippie handled the blues with the loving and instinctive expertness of her collectors' item records of the middle '20s, when she worked with Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and Earl ("Father") Hines. She had quit singing in 1930 to bring up her four kids (later there were three more). When Jazz Pedant Rudi Blesh found her three months ago she was scraping trays in a Chicago cafeteria...
...very hard to do something good, powerful and out of the ordinary. Occasionally, this effort brings the picture to life. There are also a few good flashes of melodrama. But on the whole, Deep Valley is reminiscent of many of the solemn little-theater plays of the early '20s: i.e., it is lost in mawkishness and pseudopoetic feeling masquerading...
Against a Closed Shop. The son of a bullfighter, Manolete had been born into that world of stylized drama, of vanity, vulgar pomp and sublime grace. He was as great as Belmonte, who dominated the "golden age" of the '20s. Manolete followed the restrained, classical tradition of Belmonte, but he worked even closer to the bulls, spinning them around him, horns a fraction of an inch away. Manolete could do this without bravado, relaxed, dignified, almost pensive...
...claiming that she had contracted radiation sickness in a war-job at Westinghouse's Bloomfield, NJ. plant. Her illness, marked by fibrous degeneration of both lungs and a slow wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused by inhaling beryllium dust, used in the manufacture of fluorescent lamps...
...month bond salesman in Cleveland; in 1916 he went into investment banking for himself. He made his first killing in 1921, buying up depressed Liberty Bonds. Traders first began to notice him when he became a big buyer of Canadian bonds. In the bull market of the '20s, he loaded up heavily with Woolworth and Montgomery Ward when they were low-priced, made millions when they spiraled and were split. One of the few to unload before the 1929 crash, he doubled his fortune by going short...