Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will Harbut, his Negro groom, put it: "This hoss owes nobody nuthin', an' ain't got no alibis to make . . . he race ten times as a two-yeah-old an' out of those ten races he win ten. How's 'at? Upset beat him? I didn't see it, mister, so I still...
...this is really a piece of furniture to beat all. Surrounding the keg is a mahogany tray. If you should happen to spill any fine old scotch, it would undoubtedly be sopped up by the fine old mahogany. No more dirty new sponges...
Levy, who is married to one of the Andrews sisters, is the man who launched such Tin Pan Alley successes as Beat Me Daddy and Scrub Me Mamma. Said he: "Look, Mr. Stravinsky, I would not like to write a chapter in my book about you -a book called You've Got to Die Before You Write Popular Songs." At first Stravinsky didn't get it. Then Levy reminded him of what Tin Pan Alley grave robbers had done to Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Why shouldn't Stravinsky steal from his own Firebird...
...clumsy stage machinery, had pace. Halasz had picked up some ideas from Broadway and Hollywood, including pretty girls in the chorus and the use of screen projections for scenery. The Met has snapped up ten of his singers, including Dorothy Kirsten, Regina Resnik, Polyna Stoska. His performances of off-beat operas like Ariadne auf Naxos, and Eugen Onegin play to near-capacity audiences...
...Poley Guyda's Freshman soccer team hits the first big roadblock in the path of an unbeaten season when it plays Exeter Academy this afternoon at Exeter. Rated as one of the top prep school teams in the New England area, the Exonians are also undefeated and last week beat Medford High School, which tied the Crimson earlier this fall...