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...expression (surprised) but by the sounds (symphonic) he emitted from his instrument, his listeners in Washington, D.C. this week could tell that Sigurd Rascher was no saxophonist of the baser sort. With the National Symphony and Conductor Rudolph Ganz behind him, Saxophonist Rascher's proops and pralalas were strictly serious. And so was Sigurd Rascher, for he is the man who rescued the saxophone from the barrelhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Symphonic Saxophonist | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...play with girls who know no better than you. You can be a butterfly sucking every attractive flower. You can even brag to your friends about the conquests you have made. You are not a hero. You have taken advantage of the weakness of womanhood to satisfy your baser nature. There is nothing heroic about that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...queens of Howard Street need have no worries about business falling off. Aside from the now-famous Log Cabin Close-up and a couple of long distance shots of Miss Lamarr loping around the countryside without a stitch to her name, the picture makes no monumental play for the baser passions. In fact, the sex in "Ecstasy" makes a noble effort to be etherial, cosmic, and all very symbolic. Perhaps this was the director's secret, haunting ideal. If so, he came far from realizing it on celluloid, What he did realize was neither fish nor fowl; neither good, healthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

Truly the Dartmouth Outing has only gained by the spiriting away of its spirit license. It is unfortunate that this will not prevent all inebriation; man's baser instincts invariably find expression in some subversive manner. Nevertheless, a body blow has been struck for right and temperance. All clean livers should rejoice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO FIREWATER | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...outdone Bill Stickel cleared the loaded bases for Columbia in the fifth inning of the second game, and in the seventh Bob Stolz for the Lions got a four-baser with one on, after falling flat on the ground in an attempt to hit a previous Ingalls strike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, '41 Oarsmen Triumph; Baseballers Retain League Lead | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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