Word: couldn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English, "What sense of humor? But they really aren't an had as all that; they've just been brought up wrong. I was in a revue over there this summer, a hodge podge of everything I've done here for the past five years, but the audience just couldn't see eye to eye with an American one is picking their laughs...
When Harriman admitted he couldn't deliver, Fisk let him off for $50,000 but blandly extracted a promise that Harriman would try to compose his battle with J. P. Morgan Sr. over the Northern Pacific R.R., which was then depressing the market. Harriman was soon closeted with Morgan, and Pliny Fisk thereupon put every available dollar into the market. When peace was announced next morning, he had an overnight profit...
...hell, a very serious question was brought up. Just what is the average leader going to do about the jitterbug? Benny Goodman recently wrote a long article proving that the jitterbugs caused his band to play as loudly as it does because they screamed so loudly the band couldn't be heard. Mebbe so--and again mebbe not. But at any rate, the screaming, exhibitionistic type of swing fan who climbs all over the stand, swipes drumsticks, playfully pokes dents in a five hundred dollar horn, and otherwise makes himself knows is a really large headache, Nobody has any kick...
This ungrateful criticism is by no means a reflection on the cast, who really couldn't help themselves. They have placed themselves in the hands of a director who through ignorance violates the spirit of college theatricals. Their fellow clubmen have given them a fine score, good lyrics, a passable book and amusing stage sets; if they remind Mr. Lilley that he is not directing for Earl Carroll, they can make a good show out of it before it hits Boston. Even if they don't it will still be fair enough...
Celebrating his 65th birthday, Harold LeClair lakes, Secretary of the Interior and one of the hardest-working men in Washington, declared: "If a man worked hard at it he couldn't get a bigger list of enemies than...