Word: delilah
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Starting with a maple-syrup agency and her husband's name, Bea managed to struggle along till she gathered in Delilah, a great black mammy with a beautiful disposition and a gift for cooking. The first B. Pullman waffle shop on the Board Walk was such a success that others followed. Bea, gradually discovering unsuspected executive talents, went on from hard-won struggles to easy victories, finally dotted half the U. S. with B. Pullmans. When she plunged into Manhattan real estate she emerged a millionairess. Meantime she was buying her only daughter social-educational advantages, often wishing...
...post-war decade will take his place with the truly great imposters of history. But the shadow that Arcades as Prince Mike in the headlines of today's newspapers will in ages yet to come have to slink in the company of Judas lscariot. Joseph's eleven brothers. Delilah and other wretches who have sold their kin for a handful of silver. Cornell Daily...
...family charity until his writing began to pay. Thereafter, besides practicing journalism in Vienna, he has written some 20 books. Bambi, his first book published in America, telling the life story of a buck in the Wienerwald, was a great success. Others: The Hound of Florence, Fifteen Rabbits, Samson & Delilah...
Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns - the Easterner whose father has banished him to the badlands. But biggest asset to the show is the person of Ethel Merman who, as a honkeytonk singer, strolls out on the stage at the Act I finale and electrifies spectators by shouting "Sam & Delilah," an extremely low-down Gershwinian num - ber with a deep blue base. It is also Miss Merman who, in another piece, croons...
NEVER has a biblical personnage encountered such ultra-modern handling as ancient Samson experiences at the hands of Mr. Washburn whose first novel stamps him as a twentieth century vulgarizer of the first rank. The classic shades of Milton's "Samson Agonistes" and Saint-Saens' "Samson and Delilah" will have a difficult time adjusting themselves to the ribald ghosts of this most recent characterization of the deliverer of the children of Israel. In fact, "Samson" stands in a fair way to be a literary pariah because of its uncompromising frankness and defiance of the literary code of ethics. If someone...