Word: cohans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many able adapters of the pit-a-padding rhythms have been concerned with these developments: Fatherly Theodore Snyder, composer of The Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never...
George M. Cohan in a special article written for the Chicago Tribune has shown unsuspected generosity and devotion to Harvard. Discussing Harvard's loss of Professor Baker, this inveterate joker turns tragedy into farce, and concludes: "If there is anything I can do to help Harvard.... I'll be only too delighted to hop on to Cambridge once or twice a week with my dancing shoes and give the boys buck and wing lessons...
...dream of a new day when, instead of concentrating in Anthropology, he may throw his whole soul into the Technique of Musical Reviews: when, instead of Chemistry or Physics under Professor Obtuse, he may satisfy the science requirement by taking Analysis of Form (laboratory course) under Professor George M. Cohan...
Last year the club received the assistance of Mr. George M. Cohan, famous musical comedy writer, with the book of the play, and this year Coach Silvers said that it would have the best of professional assistance in the production...
...Wrote Cohan: "At last I'm a man of letters, whatever that means. . . . You'll just die laughing at some of the things I'll say. . . . Write me; wire me; phone me 1 ... I love my little readers. If any college boy cares to call my attention to a misspelled word or two I will appreciate it beyond words. . . . Yours...