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Word: incidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1897 Frank Harding published a Cake Walk version of I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls, from Balfe's opera, The Bohemian Girl. The skies did not fall, but ever since then it has been good publicity: 1) to jazz a well-known classic or dead-serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musical Mayhem | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Last week Leo Fitzpatrick, doughty Celtic manager of Detroit's WJR and radio adviser to Father Coughlin switched off Tommy Dorsey's band right in the middle of their swing. The trouble was they were swinging Loch Lomond. Said Manager Fitzpatrick: "It is a sacrilege to make a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musical Mayhem | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

A lot of people disliked the old Robert Taylor (for one reason or another) but a lot more are going to dislike the new Robert Taylor. He is a big, virile fellow--courtesy of M. G. M.--with incredible athletic prowess, a fine disdain for the weaker sex. He carries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/19/1938 | See Source »

If you mean the border-town editors, don't make me laugh. They know Mexican revolutions-some of them as far back as nearly half a century. And they don't get excited, especially over a purely local affair as was the case in the Matamoros incident referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

The fellows who got excited over this incident were the radio commentators, who broadcast from Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and a few other points; also the rewrite men and telegraph editors of the big-town papers (your kind of "big town"). The further away the more excited they got. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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