Word: halcyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also paralleling that halcyon era is the appearance of a man whom Coach John Chase rates as the best Harvard prospect, since Austie, first of the famous Crimson hockey Hardings. He is Captain Dick Mechem, a St. Paul's alumnus. Mechem's play has sparked the Yardlings in their every contest...
...jazz band, I heard the Berigan of "King Porter Stomp" and "Song of India" all over again. . . . After a month of unexciting tons of wax, a few interesting records have finally appeared. Benny Goodman's "Jersey Bounce" and "String of Pearls" is certainly one of his finest since the halcyon days...
Depression I put an end to the halcyon days. Turpentine prices slumped from better than 50? a gallon to 31? in 1931, rosin from $8.50 a barrel to $2.95. By 1933 the housing collapse and a shrunken export market reduced the naval stores industry to a pauperish $13,792,000. In March 1936 producers met at Jacksonville, formed the American Turpentine Farmers Association Cooperative to cut excess production, get rid of surplus stocks, undertake conservation...
...management trouble, financial trouble, personnel trouble, and plain hard luck for so long that it looked as though he wasn't going to make the grade. I hope that this job is a step back towards the breaks and the playing Bunny had and did in his halcyon days on the Swing Club program...