Word: hart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Humiture" or "Thermidity" be a hyphenated number (Temperature-Humidity) such as 85-100, which will be perfectly clear and complete, yet short and simple. L. H. HART Philadelphia...
Sing Out the News (by Charles Friedman and Harold J. Rome; produced by Max Gordon in association with George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart). Biggest musical find last season was Composer Harold J. Rome, who wrote the songs for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union homespun Left revue. Pins and Needles, Rome's Sing Out the News is a custom-tailored, more conservatively cut satire on world events, most of whose pins are safety pins. Recurrent target for its gags, skits, songs, is neither Hitler nor Chamberlain, strikes nor wars, but Franklin D. Roosevelt. Now & then the firecrackers land...
...surface Rodgers, living by the clock, managing his own financial affairs and holding Hart in leash, seems to be the businessman of the pair. But Hart, who employs a business manager, who "runs a temperature" when he does not feel like working, who has to be yanked out of bed late in the day by a determined Negro servant girl, and who prefers to meet a question with a wisecrack rather than an answer, very likely knows to the fourth decimal place the dollars-and-cents value of his "temperament." Aside from Jerome Kern years ago, Rodgers does not feel...
...Hart has never studied versification, never uses a rhyming dictionary. Rodgers disparages himself as a pianist, though he is extremely pleased at having once made some Ampico player-piano rolls of some of his song hits. Ampico still contributes something to his income. From time to time it sends him long, involved, incomprehensible royalty statements, with royalty enclosed. The enclosure: a ten-cent postage stamp...
Swarthy Painter Thomas Hart Benton, famed for his Missouri murals, attacked New York City's examination for high-school teachers of fine arts, declaring the mural problem would have stumped him, complained "It is impossible to perform in the time limit allowed. As a matter of fact, it is impossible of performance no matter what the time limit...