Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plus excellent recording make this tips...Catch the Duke's recording of "Aint The Gravy Fine" (Vocalion) if you want nice bounce rhythm and a salacious vocal ... After a little checking of master plate numbers, confirmed my guess that jimmy Dorsey's "Arkansas Traveler" was recorded about a year age. Good dise, but the style isn't as good as the one the band now uses.... Listen to Johnny Kirby's record of "Pastel Blues" (Decca) and you won't go near the Art Shaw of the same
...Importance of Being Earnest" is pleasantly reminiscent of England's upper crust before the age of umbrella politics and Lady Astor. Fragrant, trivial, witty, and as unreal as Dresden China, this horsehair classic of Oscar Wilde's is a harmless sedative for 1939 hangovers...
...March 13 issue, on p. 44, TIME said that a man in Stratford-on-Avon died at "83 ; of old age...
...biological meetings in Manhattan and elsewhere, taking with him his plain, patient wife, who is a doctor of medicine and has done valuable research on metabolism. Born to a brewer in Denmark's Jutland 65 years ago, August Krogh (pronounced Krug) was fascinated by beetle larvae at the age of four. At the University of Copenhagen he ripped with great speed and facility through courses in physics, chemistry and biology, specialized in zoology, studied the respiration of marine animals on a Greenland expedition, learned to like seal meat ("sweet, different, not fishy...
Nearest that James Boyd has come to a modern novel was his Roll River (1935), a story laid in his home town, Harrisburg, from 1880 to 1920. It is his theory (like that of James Branch Cabell) that good novels cannot be written about the present age; a writer needs "the perspective of years to know what most of it amounts to-if anything." Not because his theory is necessarily correct, but because he has written good U. S. historical romances (Drums, Long Hunt, et al.), readers will be glad that Bitter Creek returns to the past...