Word: halcyon
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...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...
...even got up early sometimes to watch the sun rise. The 13th day out of Hawaii he rose before dawn, dressed with his usual care, went forward to his favorite sunrise-watching spot, a door in the bow about 15 ft. above the water, kept open because of the halcyon weather. There he stood and watched the sun rise. As he turned to go, his foot slipped on a grease spot and he fell overboard...
When they get back to their Hollywood villa, complete with swimming pool and swans in the duck pond, Maine learns that in her next picture his wife will play opposite Niles's newest male star and that his own halcyon days in Hollywood are over...