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...guess being a bootlegger was the fartherest away we ever got from our churchly childhood," explains Snowball, jovial colored free lance of Mt. Auburn Street who uses the royal prerogative, walks on the sides of his shoes, and does not believe in dicting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFILE | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

William Selden Miles, 78, a jovial little Negro, is captain in charge of the cardroom café at Manhattan's arch-Republican Union League Club. Last week, in behalf of the Club he has served for 60 years, Banker James Herbert Case handed Miles a bankbook containing $600 in deposits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Democrat, He | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballad Hunter | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...were liberal, trout-fishing Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston and fat, jovial Dean John D. McLauchlan. But the bank hoped that padlocking, stripping the altar, extinguishing the sanctuary lamp might stir the congregation into a drive to refinance its debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cathedral for Rent | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...jovial and expensive mood after lunching with several friends and associates, he placed himself in a large armchair and relaxed before his evening address in Symphony Hall. Long known as one of Roosvelt's most out-spoken opponents, Wheeler has recently taken the lead in fighting against American entrance into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOSEVELT CAN'T ORDER NAVY TO WAR ZONE, WHEELER SAYS | 5/1/1941 | See Source »

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