Word: ball
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start the ball rolling I suggest Misona, adjectival forms Misonan and Misonian. This is suggested by the Mississippi and Missouri, our two greatest rivers, and Arizona, which symbolizes our rich mountains and unique and fertile deserts. I do not doubt that better linguists than I can suggest better names...
...Labor are Matthew Woll's for John L. Lewis, Thomas A. Rickert's for Sidney Hillman. Tiny Mr. Woll (5 ft. 2 in.) thinks he would be president of A. F. of L. today instead of its third and smallest vice president if John Lewis had played ball in 1924 (when Founder Sam Gompers died). Tom Rickert thinks he would be high man in the men's apparel industry if Sidney Hillman had not seceded in 1914 from Mr. Rickert's United Garment Workers and eclipsed it with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...nook run by high-brow Harvardians from 1928 to 1932, the first general awakening began four years ago. A drifting spore from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art took root in Boston as an "affiliate," was watered by about 50 members, made $1,500 on a Modern Arts Ball (now annual and famous as the only dance at which Boston society stays up until dawn). By 1937 there were 300 members. Two months ago, with 800 paying members, Boston's offshoot became a lusty shoot, dropped affiliation with Manhattan, changed its name to the Boston Institute of Modern...
...Fair luncheon for visiting mayors in Manhattan Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll) broadcast an extracurricular skit. Amos: "De emblem o' de fair is really bee-yutiful. Dat tall tower reminds me of de Washin'ton monument; an' dat big ball reminds me. . . ." Andy: ". . . of Jim Farley's haid." They were followed by New York City's little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who assumed an accent and ad-libbed: (As Amos) "No mail today. ... I knew you should'n'a made dat crack about Jim Farley." (As Andy) "I thought...
...Beauty for the Asking" is notable chiefly for the presence of a tidy little morsel named Lucille Ball. The young lady, it may be said, is very badly dressed and very good looking. "Farmyard Symphony," the Walt Disney aperitif on the bill, is not so tasty as usual, but adds its share of seasoning to the film menu...