Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jazz and crooners had sapped the grand traditions of martial music. Said they: "The whole difference [between 1914 and now] is that then we called men 'lads' and now we call lads 'men.' . . . Little Sir Echo is in waltz time, and no army ever waltzed its way to victory...
Last week this same Buzz Hoover was packing to pull out of Greeley on a streamliner for a vacation, after the busiest season his Greeley Cash Auction Market has ever had. Sales were running some 60% better than 1938's $1,000,000-plus, and on sales Buzz Hoover collects anywhere from 3% to 7%. Fall and winter business was piling up so that Buzz had to shut down his own auction school, which had 50 aspirants booked at $100 a head...
...were married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry him. As for the interview, Stefansson later wrote Bill a letter and said it was the greatest piece of reporting he had ever seen...
There was the time a struggling Notre Dame team came East and whipped Army 7-0. Bill Cunningham said the reason was that years before, when Notre Dame's immortal George Gipp lay dying, he had called for Knute Rockne. "If things ever get too tough for Notre Dame," Gipp was supposed to have said, "ask the boys to score one for Gipper." Rockne had saved this one for a special occasion. On the day when Notre Dame met Army, he let the boys have it between halves. According to Bill Cunningham, as Notre Dame's back plunged...
...millions of South Americans the greatest man who ever lived was Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacio, liberator of Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Panama. Simón Bolívar (pronounced See-moan Bow-lee-var) has inspired litanies like those to the saints. His tomb at Caracas-the "Pantheon"-is almost as much a religious as a national shrine. Venezuela's President Contreras reputedly goes there to pray...