Word: joshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oswald Ryan, 58, another Harvard lawyer and one of the original members of the board, is CAB's legalist, steady, if not brilliant. Harllee Branch, 67, a onetime Washington correspondent, was Second Assistant Postmaster General in charge of air mail under Jim Farley (his specialty: political chores). But Josh Lee, 55, onetime Bible-spouting Senator from Oklahoma, has not shone as an aviation expert...
...those Martians who know nothing about the Blues, work songs, or folk songs, Josh White can be described simply as a man who can, and did, make "The Green Grass Grew All Around" sound absorbing. The cognoscenti need know no more than that he sang numbers ranging from "Molly Malone" and "On Top of Old Smoky" to "Strange Fruit" and Hard Time Blues." One of the most poised persons in the entertainment world, he handled songs like "John Henry," "The Foggy Foggy Dew," and "The Outskirts of Town" in easygoing style, though he had no microphone. Between his song groups...
...thin, tight-mouthed men with outsize cars who were spotted around Jordan Hall Tuesday night at the Josh White Concert may, it was rumored, have been card-carrying members of the Watch and Ward. If so, they'll probably be back in human guise Saturday, just to enjoy the proceedings, for White proved that he can be vastly entertaining without being suggestive...
...pleasant evening, and those who go Saturday night will find Showman White mesmerizing them into thinking they're in a small New York night club. Unless, as happened Tuesday, someone asks for the graphically lascivious "Jolly, Jolly," and Josh ticks Boston off by shaking his head, and saying pityingly, "Not here...
Shubert:Happy Birthday Plymouth: Present Laughter Opera House: Song of Norway Ballet Russe (next week) Wilbur: Born Yesterday Colonial: John Gabriel Borkman Symphony Hall: Kreisler Templeton Hayes Jordan Hall: Josh Whte Winslow Posset