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...little bitty pool) or in "fish talk" (Down in de meddy in a ITTY BITTY POO). The chorus can be sung only one way: Boop boop dittem dattem whattem Chu! The song, likely to cause reverse peristalsis in fastidious stomachs, is all about some "itty fitties" who "fam and dey fam" until they "taw a TARK!" (shark). Den dey fam back to deir poo. The publishers, wary of overplugging Three Little Fishies, withheld it from all but a few big orchestral names-Hal Kemp, Guy Lombardo, Kay Kyser, Paul Whiteman, each of whom recorded it. The song was plugged...
...Gregrannie at the age of a hundred is still managing her fortune, fixing up the grandchildren when they get into those readily-soluble jams that are so common in novels, looking after the great-grandchildren, endowing cancer research and writing a book. Gregrannie takes her meals with the fam ily, makes wisecracks with her offspring, reads French and H. G. Wells's The Out line of History and recalls vividly the death of her mother in 1839, her work as a nurse in the Civil War, and the hard ships in Scotland for the generation "just following the Industrial...
...Audubon's friends made him the rival of Alexander Wilson, so Brasher's have pitted his work against that of the late Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Married, facing the compulsion of supporting his fam ily. Fuertes wanted to paint all North American birds but had to limit himself chiefly to illustration work. He encouraged and helped Rex Brasher, adding his own great bird erudition and subtle eye for bird character to Brasher's. Rex Brasher alone has had simultaneously the time, the ability, the monumental persistence, the hardheaded fidelity to do all the birds of North America...
...brought the city to the brink of bankruptcy. Jobless relief had cost the city $17,000,000. Because of hard times $11,000,000 in taxes remained unpaid. It closed its fiscal year with a $14,500.000 deficit. Ten percent of the population was out of work. Thirty thousand fam-ilies-132,000 individuals-were being carried on the city's relief rolls at a cost of $1,000,000 per month. Fraud and embezzlement had been found in the dole administration, after Ford Motor Co. officials had charged "criminal negligence" and cited hundreds of dole-getters who were...
...makeup would mitigate the impression of promiscuity which had gone forth. The result, an "exclusive" for the U. P., was the full details of how the girl had been induced to unnatural sexual antics at the age of eleven by the elderly man, a trusted friend of the fam ily; how he had repeatedly over a period of years taken her on automobile trips, stopping at hotels, with knowledge and consent of the parents who never dreamed that his interest was other than fatherly: how Starr, who was emotionally unbalanced as a result, finally made known the facts...