Word: blooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...training. He studied at Manhattan's Institute of Musical Art. To earn a living, he took a job as a pianist in the First Little Show (1929), wrote Moanin' Low for Libby Holman. For Paramount Rainger and his lyricist Leo Robin wrote June in January, Love in Bloom and the songs Gladys Swarthout sang in Rose of the Rancho. When Paramount wants swing music, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel are set to work. Clowning at parties pleases them more. With little urging Gordon will hoist his 317 Ib. up onto a piano, coyly croon I Feel Like...
...avenue of cherry trees leading to the birthplace of George Washington near Fredericksburg, Va., oldtime Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson undertook to throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, thus duplicating the legendary feat of the youthful Washington. Promptly New York's noisy Representative Sol Bloom, Director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed the Rappahannock, now 272 ft. wide...
...ankle-deep slush along the river. Virginia's Governor George Campbell Peery refused to wet his feet, missed the show. Presently Pitcher Johnson wound up, plunked one dollar into the river, placed two more well up on the opposite bank. Official distance: 286 ft. 6 in. Representative Bloom, "too busy" to attend, refused to pay the citizens of Fredericksburg $100,000, pointed out that the legend was impossible anyway since the dollar did not exist in Washington's youth...
...week, however, U. S. bankers had other things to worry about than the latest blast from the founder of the National Union For Social Justice. Opened each December by Manhattan's ancient Bank of the Manhattan Co., the season for annual bank stockholders' meetings was in full bloom. From hundreds of meetings shareholders learned that deposits were around record highs, that loans were around record lows. The trend of earnings was currently upward, though full year profits were often less than in 1934. Recoveries from assets previously written down or charged off contributed substantially to profits in many...
...daughters, Mary Belle Jr., 16, and Victoria, 14, had never been to school before last autumn. That the Spencer girls have indeed been lifelong truants is a fact which their mother has long made familiar to most Chicago newsreaders, but only recently to the school department of suburban Bloom Township. When Attorney Spencer had Fandancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure in 1934, newshawks showed her a picture of her own shapely daughters in a bathing beauty contest (see cut) elicited this response: "My girls must never be repressed. Their minds must not be filled with other people...