Word: butler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifty-five years ago and more, the writer hereof earned his first dollar playing for dances in Butler county, a young boy in his middle teens. We make no boasts but our outfit, consisting of a blind fiddler, a competent cornetist and deponent at the cabinet organ or piano, as the case happened to be-used to go out in the country to farm dances. . . . Mostly we played square dances, though we had two or three waltzes-'The First Kiss Waltz,' 'The Cornflower Waltz,' 'The Skaters' and 'Where, Oh Where, Has My Little...
...bachelor girl) to the altar, the problem is to provide enough comedy antics to keep the customers awake until the wedding. Cinemactor Milland and the dummy head ("Chester") which he uses for his researches provide some of them. Gail Patrick (the girl Milland jilts) and Edmund Gwenn (the butler in The Earl of Chicago) provide some more. So does the technical chatter of some eminent psychologists. Observers are likely to be delighted when the romp is over...
...Major General Smedley Butler, U. S. M. C. retired, said the Allies must drive the Nazis out of Norway in 90 days or lose the war "unless the United States jumps in and saves them...
...Russian materials to Germany has slowed down, through inefficiency, misroutings, losses and other deeply regretted causes. Russia has been very courteous in its dealings with both Finland and Sweden, and last week Ambassador Ivan Maisky had a long talk with British Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Richard Austen Butler about the possibility of a trade agreement with Great Britain. This week the possibility of such an agreement seemed likelier as Ambassador Maisky again visited the Foreign Office, this time conferred with Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax...
...Butler was not in Chicago for WLS's anniversary shindigs during the past fortnight. He has bought Station KOY in Phoenix, Ariz, and another agricultural paper, the Arizona Farmer, and at 72 tinkers happily with these properties...