Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mister Jefferson Lord, Play that 'barber shop chord, That soothing harmony; It makes an awful, awful hit with me. Play that strain, just to please me, again. 'Cause, mister, when yon start that 'minor part I feel your finger slipping and gripping at my heart. Oh, Lord, play that barber shop chord...
...undergraduate days at Williams, and his studies in Berlin and Strassburg. He was captain and catcher of his class baseball team at Williams, and recalls how hazardous the sport then was. "If we were hurt, we were hurt. I still carry the scar of a left finger badly broken by a foul tip; I remember pushing the bone back under the skin, wrapping a handkerchief around it and playing the game out, but any one of us would have preferred to lose a finger rather than lose a ball game...
...days when the Republican machine of the late William S. Vare plotted the path which Philadelphia should tread, the Boss simply pointed his finger and the man at whom he pointed was overwhelmingly elected. Whom the Democrats might nominate made little difference. This year it does...
Trim, energetic President Harry Cohn, who runs the production end of the business, knows his studio as do few producers. Driving to work in the afternoon in one of his three Rolls-Royces, he stays at his desk until 2 or 3 next morning. A desk-pounding, finger-snapping executive, he has nevertheless learned the wisdom of giving a good director like Frank Capra his head...
Biggest point: "In the years 1928 to 1933 inclusive, 635 advertisers used national broadcast advertising. By 1934, 448 of these advertisers had abandoned Radio-187 remained on the air." Having thus put a finger on "broadcast mortality," as Radio's weakest spot, Yardsticks on the Air posed a series of pertinent questions...