Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could particularly thank its lucky star. World War I boosted the U. S. permanently to the position of chief trader with Latin America, but in chemicals Germany was still chemistry's Big Store, with plenty of exclusive products, and when the war had ended it hopped right back to the top of the market. But World War I left the U. S. in possession, through seizure, of certain of Germany's most prized secret chemical processes, which went to the U. S. industry. Today it is possible to take Germany's market for keeps...
Willie was taught to play by his mother, herself a pianist and organist of some local repute, and he attracted his first large audiences when, aged 20, he joined the 350th Field Artillery and banged his way from Camp Dix to France and back. On the strictly military phase of his service with the 350th, The Lion's recollections sound like a blend of Caesar's Gallic Wars and Alice in Wonderland. "Very few soldiers volunteered to go up to the front and fire a French 75," he declares, "and of those who did-few returned. The Lion...
...Back home in Manhattan, Sergeant Smith was soon in the big time, playing at Reisenweher's (as did the famed Original Dixieland Jazz Band), accompanying the great Mamie Smith on Okeh records, traveling the Keith Circuit with a band. Prohibition led him prosperously underground, and lovers of hot music flocked to hear him at Harlem's Pod's and Jerry's saloon as eagerly as early Christians to their interdicted devotions. So eminent a white jazz player as Saxophonist Bud Freeman has since declared him to be the best groove pianist a band could have...
Meanwhile Rex Ingram turned down many a good job in Hollywood, determined not to go back until he finds a story "I know, understand, believe in." His own novel is out of the question, he declares: the censors would make mincemeat of it. Evidently influenced by Hemingway (Rex Ingram's favorite author), Mars in the House of Death traces the short life of a famed bullfighter named Chuchito, illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having...
...Minneapolis, a policeman nabbed one Marcia Schneider for speeding. "Where do you think you're going, to a fire?" said he. "No, I've got one with me," said she, pointing to a blaze in the back...