Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening of pure, concentrated hellraising, we suggest Fats Waller at the Southland. I heard him again last week, and can remember few times when I have had as much fun. The six guys in Fats' band make more music than most of the big bands ever think of making. Eugene Cedric on tenor plays solos that rampage in much the same manner that Chu Berry's do. Everybody else, including Herman Autrey on trumpet, is just as good...
...that other war, reminisced these veterans, there was nothing at sea like Germany's raiders. They behaved far differently from submarines. The raiders' game was almost merry: a game of masquerade, chase, chivalry, a game with rules,-grim outlawry with a face of fun and even a little virtue. Take, for instance, the old Emden...
...students were on the State payroll). Last July, when President Smith was indicted for making free with the University's money (TIME, July 10), this lush era came to an end. Last week outsiders learned how much their fun had cost Louisiana students in humiliation...
...agencies that helped pay the bill for Louisianians' fun was the National Youth Administration, which gave 525 L. S. U. students up to $25 a month. The man who handed out this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner of the Heidelberg Hotel, where Huey Long used to live. One day two months ago George Heidelberg hailed a cabdriver, told him to drive to a saloon. Said he: "I'll have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg...
...rotten music in order to get a lot of work, and announced that he was from now on going to work only a few nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give up a prosperous livelihood, and too many like Tommy Dorsey and Artic Shaw who are so busy looking for the big money they don't have time to relax...