Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brings back dear old Harvard, a school from which I learned less than I did from Metropolitan Business College...
Soon after, the song reached its stride, and with it came complaints from Si Oliver, arranger for Jimmy Lunceford, who claimed it came from his arrangement of Dear Old Southland, from Gene Krupa who said he made it up in one of his earlier Brunswick records, from Count Basic who has used the lick in numerous of his arrangements. Jerry Kreuger, a 52nd Street singer, said she has used the line "Don't get icky with the 1-2-3" in New York since last summer after hearing it in the Catskills...
Couple of months ago, after 14 years' absence from the stage, John Barrymore, 57, four times married, took to the road in a play burlesquing his matrimonial life, My Dear Children. One of the "children" was Elaine Barrie, 24, Barrymore's latest wife...
Ideally the President's plan would shuffle his agencies physically as well as functionally into streamlined new quarters, not only in Washington but out through the land where their scattered regional offices now cost citizens dear in time to find them, deal separately with them. Affected by the altered grouping will be 90,400 Federal employes in all, only 24,982 of them in Washington. The President in this plan did not dwell on the unpopular subject of how many of these jobs would be telescoped...
...bulk back to the Pacific, a cardinal Navy doctrine which Alfred Mahan formulated is news. Just before Roosevelt I retired from the Presidency, Alfred Mahan asked him to urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide the battleship force between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified by saying "prior to the completion of the Panama Canal," but today...