Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superiors . . . with the purpose of ruining him." Buddy De Sylva, hit songwriter of the '20s (Good News, April Showers, Wishing) and producer (Panama Hat tie, Louisiana Purchase, DuBarry Was a Lady), persuaded a court to pare down the support payments he has to make to his onetime good friend and secretary, Marie Ballentine, and their four-year-old son. Starting next March it will be $650 a month instead...
...nearly 20 years ago, Mildred Bailey lowered her mountainous bulk into her niece's tot-sized red rocking chair to pass the time of day with friend Hoagy Carmichael. When she tried to get up, the chair got up with her. Said Mildred with a laugh: "This ol' rockin' chair's got me, I guess." A month later, Composer Carmichael had finished the song that made Mildred famous...
...reason the test is worthless : unlike Humpty Dumpty who shouted right in his friend's ear (see cut), testers instinctively lower their voices when they approach a subject. Other reasons: testers' voices vary; other sounds in usual testing rooms make a big difference but are ignored in figuring a man's hearing; because of the way the human ear works, the tester's voice does not sound significantly louder until he is within ten feet...
...Miss C. Daley wanted to be a singer, but she had "a large mouth and protruding buckteeth." At her debut "she tried to pull down her upper lip to cover her teeth," got all her trills gummed up. Bawled a friend: "Open your mouth, and the audience will love you!" Today, openmouthed Cass Daley is "a top star in movies and radio. Other comedians are trying to imitate...
Talk with the Devil. One thing the Journals make clear: Gide's "insatiable Hell." His daily antagonist is a very real devil. In 1914 he told a friend that what "kept me from believing in the devil was that I wasn't quite sure of hating him." Two years later he confided to his Journals: "When I say: the Evil One, I know what that expression designates just as clearly as I know what is designated by the word God. I draw his outline by the deficiency of each virtue ... he is more intelligent than I, everything...