Word: doo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down to take a piano-playing job in Irving Berlin's publishing house. "I began running into people like Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans and the Gershwins. It made me want to write Broadway shows." The first Broadway show he wrote, Blackbirds of 1928, with songs like Diga Diga Doo' and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, made him famous. Jimmy confesses that he began to "rake in the loot...
...Western Hemisphere is on the air only three nights a week, gives its only day programs Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Programs consist chiefly of records, most of them old numbers donated by Aklavikans. Eskimos and Indians, says MacLeod, like cowboy songs best; whites prefer Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and boogie-woogie. Sundays the station airs one church service after another-some in Eskimo and varying Indian dialects...
...tones would go over; to drop her jaw as far as possible to get a "free" tone without strain ("You can't go through a closed door"). Once Madame Karst shouted, "My God, you big cow, how can you do that? Don't cocky-doodle-doo...
...bleak Gallows Hill, where Salem (Mass.) used to hang its witches', the staff of the M.I.T. Voo Doo had some good, clean fun last week with Harvard's Lampoon. Anybody who bought the magazine, they decided, was surely bewitched. So they tried the Lampoon (in absentia?) for witchcraft, hanged it in effigy, burned it atop a pyre of barrels and went home feeling as triumphant as the M.I.T. men of an earlier generation who soldered up Harvard's gates and painted John Harvard's statue a bright...
Although most of the present collection come from actors or from alumni who have made a life-time hobby of collecting theatrical "doo-dads," many of the present gems of the collection were the result of cleaning forays to non collectors attics or closets...