Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pyr.: Why, to feast on good cheer, and good liquor to quaff, ' And forgetting our labors to sit down and laugh.
Now came the tableau for which all Washington waited-the moment when bumbling Senate Leader Alben Barkley escorted down the aisle, to be sworn in as Junior Senator from Kentucky, the very man who opposed him in the bitterest of all 1938 primary fights, the fight which aroused national demand...
When Irving Potash, C. I. O. Fur Workers Union man, objected, saying that Russia had merely drawn a line in Poland to protect itself from Germany, the floor exploded with boos and sarcastic cries of "Heil Hitler!" As Potash struggled on, booing broke into thunderous shouts of "Take him away...
His first movie, two years ago, was "Live, Love, and Learn," made with Benchley, Robert Montgomery, and Rosalind Russell. "Benchley fell flat on his face and lay there dead drunk when he first came in, and when I entered, my trousers fell down and Montgomery drenched me with a bucket...
"Swing's harmful little armful" drifted into town this week. The one and only Thomas "Fats" Waller is at the Southland with his band. And don't get the impression that when you go down there, you're going to hear fourteen or fifteen men earnestly endeavoring to blow their...