Word: doubting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that his band "has the richest tradition but his performances now seem sterile." There is no doubt as to the tradition, for Whiteman has led the pack for nearly 20 years and nearly every white jazzist of any consequence has at one time or another been a member of his orchestra. As to his present organization it is true that his weekly radio program is very poor but that is due to the fact that the sponsors insist on a lot of so-called comedy, windy advertising and entirely too much vocalizing. When the orchestra is allowed...
...White House, a Brazilian army engineer named Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, running a telegraph line through the untracked fastnesses of central Brazil, glimpsed the headwaters of an unmapped river that flowed he knew not whither. He called it Rio da Dúvida-"River of Doubt...
...Buenos Aires a government official approached Colonel Roosevelt, requested him to change his plans, explore and map the "River of Doubt." Amused, T. R. observed that his countrymen would also be amused if they heard of him traveling down a "River of Doubt." There were hints in the air, which Roosevelt was not supposed to hear, that, if he agreed to go, the river would be named for him. For second-in-command he was promised the services of Colonel Rondon, a seasoned jungle traveler. Colonel Roosevelt agreed...
Meanwhile, the "River of Doubt" had become a great popular joke in the U. S. First a noisy controversy arose as to whether such a river actually existed. The newspapers jumped into the fray. Cartoons appeared featuring a burly figure with buck teeth and thick-lensed glasses, and a nebulous torrent. Editorials were written on both sides of the quarrel. The "River of Doubt" became a household phrase and the country had a grand time...
With War breaking in Europe, however, the "River of Doubt" was soon forgotten by everyone but cartographers. The Brazilian Government had confirmed the name "Rio Roosevelt," subsequently changed it to "Rio Téodoro." In 1919 Theodore Roosevelt died. In 1927 George Miller Dyott made a second trip down the river, found it as his predecessor had described. And in 1931 Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt journeyed from Albany to Manhattan to lay the cornerstone of the New York State Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, voted by the State Legislature at a cost of $3,700,000. Connected with the main building...