Word: guessing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noted comedienne explained, "I guess that may sound a bit 'screwy' to you, young man, but my son wants to attend Harvard after his graduation from Harrow, which fact, I believe, takes the kick out of my statement...
Privately, other explanations for German troop movements in the eastern Alps were given. For a week the Brenner Pass from old Austria into Italy has been closed to civilian traffic. For the same period long German troop and munition trains have been pouring through, southward bound to Italy. Best guess as to their ultimate destination: Italian-owned Libya, in north Africa, where Dictator Benito Mussolini has long planned an "adventure...
...Pinetop Smith, and "Rosetta" with an all-star band. Fine jazz plus excellent recording make this tips...Catch the Duke's recording of "Aint The Gravy Fine" (Vocalion) if you want nice bounce rhythm and a salacious vocal ... After a little checking of master plate numbers, confirmed my guess that jimmy Dorsey's "Arkansas Traveler" was recorded about a year age. Good dise, but the style isn't as good as the one the band now uses.... Listen to Johnny Kirby's record of "Pastel Blues" (Decca) and you won't go near the Art Shaw of the same
When the earth began to rumble and mongrel dogs to moan in little Tonoyama-machi, suburb of Osaka, one bright afternoon last week, experienced citizens ran from their huts and houses crying "Jishin! Jishin!" (earthquake). But out in the streets they found their guess not horrible enough. The air was filled with a noise louder than thunder, with a light brighter than the sun, with flying bits of steel and brick far more deadly than the debris which falls during earthquakes. The people knew that the earthquake was manmade, and that its epicentre was the great Army ammunition depot near...
...December which razed an aviation training station at Yonago (cost: 150,000 yen) ; or, later, the explosion and fire which wrecked an Army powder factory at Maebashi. No one, it seems, knows what caused any of these accidents to Japan's armament program, but some war-weary Japanese guess sabotage...