Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potentially strong Yardling quintet gained a close victory over M.I.T.'s Freshman hoopmen by the score of 31-27 at Tech last night. Skip Stahley, eager to develop a winning combination, used numerous substitutions...
...Dorothy Parker's witticisms and Samuel Goldwyn's boners. Example: playing Mozart on the gramophone for a friend. Odets remarked: "Mozart was a young genius, too." Odets no longer has the same interest in gadding about, hooking up with celebrities, asserting his importance. Today most of his close friends are members of the Group. Most of his spare time is spent at home-playing the gramophone. His love for music is ebullient, a little showy. "A good composer was lost," he once said, "when I took up writing...
Schubert: Sonata in A Minor (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist; Columbia: 5 sides). In Schubert's rather discursive sonata for cello and piano, Cellist Feuermann proves himself the world's No. 2 cellist, a close second to Cellist Casals...
Such a throng of sentimental and thrifty people rushed to the sale that for the first time in 90 years Charles & Co. was forced to close its doors during store hours. The crowd was then put in line, handled like any cinema overflow. The 220 Charles employes were loyal to the store, resentful of the newfangled ways that had helped to kill it. One customer asked a busy saleswoman on the second floor: "Is this the Hostess Shop?" Said the clerk: "Ha, it was, madam, or so they say it was. I never thought...
...Close to the influence of jazzminded Harvardians, the city of Cambridge has become one of the most swing-mind towns of the east. Saturday night's "swing session" at Cambridge's Inman Hall, however, caused a near tragedy...