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...tell you jes' what happened," continued the famous radio comedian, colored stooge for "Buck Benny," explaining why he almost failed to show up for the Yardling Smoker in Memorial Hall. "We landed at Providence and three gentlemen came aboard looking for us. They said they were from Harvard and that they would drive us up to Cambridge so that we would avoid the 'big crowd' at the Boston airport. So we strung along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oh, Harvard, Where Dat Smokah? Is Rochester's Cry After MIT Abduction | 5/2/1940 | See Source »

...dressing room. Champion Louis, who had defended his title for the ninth time in 30 months, admitted that it was the "most worstest fight" he ever fought. But what griped him more than his own shortcomings were his opponent's antics. "He's jes' a clown," he muttered. "I ain't never had no man kiss me before like Go doy did. I thought he was in there to fight me, not to play a love scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Most Worstest | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

There are few comic concessions, but there is sly humor in Prissy 's (Butterfly McQueen) singing of Jes' a Few Mo' Days, Ter Tote de Weery Load. There is -sumptuous satire in the sets of the barbaric mansion, the realization of all Scarlett's ideals, in which Rhett and Scar lett enshrine their garish passion. In contrast, sudden lyrical shots lighten the cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Hitler and Mussolini jes' need a good whuppin' and it looks like Uncle Sam's gonna have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Contours | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 (William Primrose and Jesús Maria Sanromá; Victor: 4 sides). One of the most beautiful of contemporary viola sonatas, written in 1922, long before Composer Hindemith became a Kulturbolschewist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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