Word: fan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge temporary shed of bamboo and matting at torrid Tripuri drove an ambulance one day last week. A patient was carried into the shed and put on a cot between two big ice tanks. Lying there, sipping cooling drinks and medicines, occasionally bidding two young nieces fan his brow, the patient tried to forget a temperature of over 100 as he presided over the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress...
While Goodman and Shaw lead in current hot-fan popularity, challengers of their positions are not wanting. High on the list of contenders is the well-balanced band fronted by Singer Bob Crosby. The Bob Cats, exponents of a modernized Dixieland Style, are well-regarded by discerning swing fans. Another potential champion is the band headed by diminutive Bobby Hackett, whose graceful, sure trumpet, as well as his down-the-middle hair-comb and tiny mustache, is reminiscent of the late great Bix Beiderbecke...
...ardent winter sports fan, Princess Fawziya reportedly fell in love with the Crown Prince during a holiday trip to Switzerland two years ago. Like modern-minded young Queen Farida she wears the veil, in deference to Moslem custom, but lets it hang loosely about her neck...
...Nevertheless, Critic Paderewski's first public performance on his coming U. S. tour will be a broadcast over the NBC-Blue network.) About jazz he is more tolerant. Says he: "To be frank, I detest it. But it can be used judiciously." Secretary Sylwin Strakacz, a confirmed swing fan, has long tried to get Paderewski interested in boogie-woogie, but the upshot of his efforts has usually been nothing but argument, long and loud...
...reasons: 1) dislike for school; 2) unhappy home conditions; 3) evil associates, encountered in dance halls, skating rinks, "cellar" clubs; 4) delusions of persecution; 5) illusions fostered by cheap novels, movies, fan magazines; 6) clashing of new and old world customs in families of foreign parentage; 7) misplaced confidence, usually in trifling men; 8) parental objection to marriage; 9) incorrigibility...