Word: chases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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James Aloysius Farley, speaking in and of Jersey City's Journal Square, whence Boss Frank Hague's brass-buttoned, blue-coated cossacks were once wont to chase orators who came there with the delusion that the whole U.S. enjoys free speech, all but busted his tongue through his cheek: "History is bound to note this spot as one of the battlegrounds where free speech was firmly established, together with the American way of life...
...only $1,500,000 to be shared among 27 U.S. Negro colleges, got under way at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Keynoter was Fisk University's* white President Thomas Elsa Jones. Heading the drive are John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lord & Taylor's President Walter Hoving, the Chase National Bank's Board Chairman Winthrop Williams Aldrich...
Boulevards and Boudoirs. Helen Goes to Troy translates Homer into French bedroom farce. Its mythological Greeks and Trojans chase each other around marble bathtubs and across perfumed counterpanes. Its Hellas consists entirely of boulevards and boudoirs. Its Helen, beneath her classical robes, is a bored upper-class Parisienne whose bumbling bourgeois spouse Menelaus (well played by Ernest Truex) is sent on a trip to Naxos, returns unexpectedly to find his wife in bed with Paris, an unawakened but erotically gifted Trojan shepherd...
...recent faculty dinner for Midshipmen, Don Higgins, the Iowan, had his friends impressed until he emerged from the keyboard and the player piano kept merrily on ... Chase Hall's Cast of Characters No. 2: James Devers. Devers halls from the city of brotherly love and has endeared himself to the men in his company one command by such tricks as bringing them to a smart attention, and shouting "April Fool" when the Professor didn't show ... Does anyone know why Gordon Johnson keeps a pigeon on his bureau? ... And if the swing rendition of taps on the ocarina...
Introducing Chase Hall's cast of characters. Number One, Fred "form the battalion" Jennings, as his name implies, is a man of responsibility. Hailing from Texas, and more recently from Dickinson State Teachers Colleges, we have heard it said that he is a lucky hand at finding damsels in the potted palms of a local hotel lobby...