Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would take the trouble to check these facts with the American Bible Society you would find out that in 1905 the Rev. Herman Frijling and the Rev. Leonard P. Brink began the reduction of the language of the Navajo Indians to print. This work has been progressing continuously ever since...
...contract was signed before Shaw left upstage, it's possible that it is more wishful thinking. However, if he does put in an appearance, it's going to be interesting to see how the trade bears up after having Fats Waller, Gene Krupa, Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Woody Herman--good bands all. Furthermore, such statements as this one of Shaw's bode ill from both swing and dancing viewpoints: "I will attempt to have a swing band playing at such, augmented by legitimate instruments playing legitimately." I'm afraid this is going to be an attempt and that...
...Woody Herman has continued to do good discs, "East Side Kick" being one of his best numbers done lately. Get a load of "Blue Prelude" with Wood's vocal chorus and then get the old Isham Jones version of the same, done for Decca when most of the Herman Herd were with Jones . . . One of Louis Armstrong's best numbers in a great while is "Poor Old Joe." Main reason is that it has the life and pep that the old Louis discs used to have and that none of them have had lately . . . Bing Crosby's "If I Knew...
...with a bald sloping brow, bulging eyes, and the slightly travel-worn air of a shambling, sub-leonine cat. At University of Chicago he is remembered as one of the two brightest students of pre-war generations. (The other: Benjamin Cohen.) Son of law-loving Chicago Lawyer Herman Frank, Jerome had a reputation for legal brilliance almost before he started practice. This he increased with the firm of Levinson, Becker, Schwartz & Frank, corporate specialists. Jerome also developed a reputation for hard work and absentmindedness. Asking his secretary to come to the office Sunday, he would fail to show up himself...
Beside Rohrlich and Stetner, the refugees who are graduate students include Herman Noether of Berlin, whose father is a famous German mathematician now in exile in Russia; Karl Deutsche, a Czech who came to Harvard year ago; Walter Pick 2M, another Czech who chalked up an outstanding record for his first half year's work at the Medical School; Herbert Sonthoff of Berlin; Georg Fleishcer, who was formerly a wealthy philanthropist and educational leader in Vienna and was exiled without a penny because he married Jewess; and Klemens Klemperer, another Austrian...