Word: bellum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mocking Bird for $5. Lee & Walker, the purchasers, made a fortune. The song sold over 20,000,000 copies, was a favorite of Edward VII as a boy. Lincoln said: "It is as sincere and sweet as the laughter of a little girl at play." Many an ante-bellum baby was named after Hally, the fictitious girl over whom the song moons...
...colleague in the plan is General Philemon Smallwood, C. S. A. (dpy Walter C. Kelly, "The Virginia Judge" of vaudeville and the corrupt Congressman of Both Your Houses). Invalided in Washington, General Smallwood is as crooked a politician as "Ace." Their fire-eating ante-bellum debates helped start the hostilities. It is a hard blow to both when the first honest deed of their official lives is prematurely discovered, balked. But rapidly reverting to type, each prepares elaborate lies to cover the blunder, part as bitter enemies as they ever were. "Sign it Burdette!" cries "Ace" to his secretary...
...Jolson off, word buzzed through the excited audience that Ruby Keeler was upset because Winchell's new scenario, Broadway Through a Keyhole, was supposedly based on her career. (She used to tap-dance in the night club of the late Larry Fay, Manhattan gangster slain last winter.) Post-bellum comment...
...compulsion in the inculcation of ideas, but in the insulation from more than one view of the subjects studied, shown in the assignments of seventy-three pages in one book, one-hundred-and-ninety-nine in another, consecutively covering historical periods, perhaps of Tudor England, or of ante-bellum America. It is obvious that this method gives but one view of the subject, and that view may or may not be adequate; the student depends implicity, upon the good faith and ability of the professor who chooses the reading, who so often assures his classes that the work has been...