Word: denly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paul Whiteman weighs 248 Ib. His father was director of music in the Denver public schools, his mother sang in a Den ver choir. He got his start in Santa Barbara playing the violin and wearing a funny hat. After a tour of Africa with a string quartet, he worked in Tait's restaurant in San Francisco, was fired for not knowing jazz. He started a band of his own, borrowed money enough to take his men east where he got a job in the Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City. His pianist, Ferdie Grofe, a brilliant technical musician, helped...
Disguised in a coffee-coloured suit and a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, the Vagabond will emerge from his Lowell House construction shake this morning for the first time in several days. Having obtained a Boston censorship list, he has been busily lining his corrugated iron den with the best of modern and classical authors in preparation for the Reading Period. However, his eager Public need not be alarmed; for, every other evening if the weather is good, he will furtively make his way through the dark Spring twilight, sidle along empty streets and longingly peer into dormitories crammed with...
...Vagabond's existence that the authorities at Harvard are lenient in their handling of this weapon. To cut a class for the purpose of gaining a rare treat in some other classroom is, from his point of view praiseworthy. So saying, the Vagabond baits the lion in his den, and regards with approval the expediency of allowing the wanderer an excused cut when there is a conflict between his regular class and the unusual lecture...