Word: gi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screen and putting Maxine Sullivan's swing rendition of Loch Lomond on it. Raft declined the leading role, that of a Mississippi showboat impresario, because he felt it did not do his talents justice. Paramount promptly suspended him from its pay roll. Miss Sullivan, 4-ft. n-in., gi-lb. Negro soprano, who in 1937 started a craze for gently swung folk tunes, made her Hollywood debut in Going Places last month. In St. Louis Blues, in addition to an excellent rendition of Loch Lomond, she touches a high in good taste for cinemusicomedy by singing the title song...
...Prometheans, like his Titans of Literature published last year, is an enthusiastic notebook proclaiming the virtues of some of his favorites. St. Mark serves gusty Author Rascoe as a peg on which to hang his theory, already secondhand, that the real Jesus was a political zealot named Simon Bar Gi'ora, that the four Gospels were really an allegory of an unsuccessful Jewish revolt against Rome. Not Petronius Arbiter but his more rapscallion son, thinks Author Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon, earliest picaresque novel. The neglected Lucian, great debunker of his day (2nd Century), he calls...
...high, ugly bandstand and the uniforms of the band playing Sousa's marches-on Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati; the three-step stoop before the notion store where the family chairs are drawn on summer evenings; the restfulness of the street noises?plodding hooves on cobbles, a teamster's gi-yap; pre-War Broad & Wall Streets, before the grey House of Morgan filled the corner...
Last week died N'Gi, famed gorilla of the Washington zoo. Ill two weeks with a chest cold, he was kept alive in an oxygen tent until one lung gave out and he succumbed to "general collapse, weakness and total loss of appetite." N'Gi was five years old, had no known living relatives. He lived longer than any other gorilla had ever lived in captivity in the U. S. His body was taken to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; his brain will be kept in the Smithsonian Institution, beneficiary of a $3,000 insurance policy...
During N'Gi's illness the U. S. Press became ape-conscious. In Washington another gorilla, named O'Kero, fell ill of a cold, recovered, as did two chimpanzees, Teddy and Jo-Jo. These episodes were reported far & wide, but nowhere did a U. S. writer wax so eloquent as did Colyumist "Doc" Adams of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin upon the death last month of a goitrous orang-outang named Jennie. Colyumist Adams wrote the following elegy...