Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week American Records celebrated the opening of Master Records with a party at which Bandleaders Hal Kemp and Paul Ash, Vocalists Baby Rose Marie, Dolly Dawn and Pinky Tomlin were due to appear. Mr. Mills does not permit such relaxations, nor the luxuries of his fantastic suites of offices, to divert his eye from the verities of Broadway. When his son Sidney, breaking in with Mills Music, called up to get Calloway to play a tune he was promoting, Mr. Mills had him turned down cold "to convince him that song-plugging is a tough racket...
With their "ohs!" and "ash!" as he's balanced there...
...that these men were attempting to paint the life around them, instead of duchesses in pearls, goddesses in Greek draperies, or New England valleys in a pink mist was enough to deny them admission to most galleries and for the critics of the day to label them the "Ash-can School," the ''Black Gang" and "Apostles of Ugliness...
...tidal wave that drowned 36,000 inhabitants of adjacent lands. In the Krakatau group, four new islands were formed from the wreck of the former three. Naturalists agreed almost unanimously that every particle of life, down to the last seed and spore, must have been wiped out by lava, ash, gas and steam, that if life again took root on the islands it must come from outside. A minutely detailed story of vegetable life on Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen and was reviewed last week in the British journal...
...father, Lord Belper, delighted the happy pair with a wedding present of a fine brood mare, but knowing Viscount & Viscountess St. Davids bestowed the gift supreme: 24 volumes of the Blood Stock Breeders Review. In the friendly atmosphere of English tenantry toward their Duke no less than 94 ash trays and 61 lamps came in, along with the presents of Queen Mother Mary, King George & Queen Elizabeth, for as Burke's Peerage says: "The Ducal and illustrious Howards stand, next to the Blood Royal, at the head of the Peerage of England...