Word: dees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judgment of distance is so good that he can pick out an object yards away and estimate its size and distance within a fraction of an inch. On an assignment he shows swimmers how to swim, prizefighters how to fight, baseball players how to run bases. When Dottie Dee (now of Sally Rand's ranch) described how she put on gold paint for her dance, Smitty said she did that wrong...
...Shoreham Hotel they waltzed it. The U. S. Marine Band, in Potomac Park, played it straight: Dee deedle dee dum dum, dum dum, dum dum. . . . Dee deedle dee dum dee dum dee dum. . . . Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...
...Richard Wagner. European composers wrote pieces with titles like Vorwärts-A Washington Post, as if this were a special dance like the waltz or polka. An army officer told Sousa that in a Borneo jungle he met a boy with a violin, sawing out the familiar deedle-dee-dums of the march. How many millions of copies the Washington Post sold, John Philip Sousa never knew. Like many composers with a good tune, he sold his rights to it early, to a Philadelphia publisher...
...Winchel Snow, 79, Marion Mackey began shooting. When he had mowed down Farmer Snow and Mrs. Snow, their two daughters and son-in-law-killing three of the five-Mackey was still mad. On his way to hide out in the Red River bottoms, he stopped to kill Farmer Dee Chandler, who was plowing a field...
Though the theatre has promulgated more staggering truths in its time, Playwright Barry's little fireside mottoes are neatly and trimly framed. Smart, gossipy, wisecracking, full of family jokes about fashionable Philadelphia and other Biddle-dee-dee, the nearest The Philadelphia Story comes to tragedy is the paralytic stroke suffered by the plot at the end of the second act. Though not up to Barry's best trifling, the play provides an entertaining evening, thanks to gay, lively dialogue and Actress Hepburn's amazing aptness for her role...