Word: cafee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Elder lives well on his followers' contributions, also runs housing projects, an employment agency, the Happy News Cafe. He denounces Father Divine as the "spirit of the devil incarnate," offers his followers no easy Divine-style heaven or sub-heavens. Instead, he warns them against being overoptimistic: "Some of you pilgrims think when you're buried that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored...
...think of what should have been the best week-end ever being spoiled just because of a football score was, well, ridiculous. Vag didn't do things like that. It wasn't natural. But he could still see himself sitting with Ann at Cafe Society just like always, and worrying about an insignificant football game. Vag kicked off his white shoes and dressed for conditioning...
Knowing full well that this suggestion may never be read by the powers-that-be, I think that one of the networks should give Mildred an exclusive fifteen minute sustaining program, preferably with Teddy Wilson's small Cafe Society band. Certainly when a pseudo-jazz program like "Chamber Music of Basin Street" can build up a tremendous following, a little decent jazz ought to get along. The beauty of the Bailey-Wilson combination, especially, is that you needn't be an ardent swing addict to appreciate and enjoy their music...
...last week that thud had helped Dorothy Donegan to an offer from Duke Ellington's band, another offer from Manhattan's Cafe Society...
...break came with a chance to fill in for ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway sophisticates, savants-about-town. Celebrities regard her with reverence, movie stars ask her for autographs. When Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley (They Were Expendable) came to New York, he picked out Hazel...