Word: arenal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Miss Lillie was asked to compare English with American sense of humor, she said of the English, "What sense of humor? But they really aren't an had as all that; they've just been brought up wrong. I was in a revue over there this summer, a hodge podge of everything I've done here for the past five years, but the audience just couldn't see eye to eye with an American one is picking their laughs...
Ormandy of lacking "poetry, imagination, subtlety and humor." Two other men resigned in sympathy. Said the orchestra's manager, curly-haired Socialite Alfred Reginald Allen: "Things aren't like they used to be." He resigned too. With its once-remunerative radio dates gone, and its budget badly off balance, outlook for the orchestra seemed squally. Leopold Stokowski preserved his beautiful calm. He purred: "If Philadelphia is solidly behind our orchestra, the disturbing influences can be stopped. If I can do anything to help, I will be so glad." At week's end it looked as though Heavyweight...
Perhaps they come from Iowa or Arkansas and are afraid their old acquaintances will look them up and discover they aren't the big shots they have claimed to be. ... I would suggest that E. P. Waterman & friends not only campaign for the San Francisco Exposition but go themselves. The trip across the U.S. would open their eyes to the grandeur of this country and they would be amazed at the friendly spirit existing in the West...
Lawrence took no interest in women but was sometimes friendly, usually polite. But Liddell Hart tells of his sitting at dinner next a French duchess who gushed about the marvelous nights in the East. "Sweaty, aren't they?" said...
...tried to control his voice. "Well, aren't you a senior...