Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong Tufts Jumbo quintet will meet the Jayvees in the preliminary at 6.45 o'clock. The Jumbos are a group of former college stars who are attending Tufts Dental School. As in past years, the Jumbos have a strong, experienced team, and are favored over the weak Jayvees...
Most intelligent laymen regard the jargon of lawyers as an obvious trade trick, a professional pig-Latin calculated to obscure otherwise simple matters and impress clients with the indispensability of their services. Fortunately, most of their pompous verbal mumbo-jumbo is harmless tautology. But at least one legal usage- "and/or"-is dangerous nonsense...
First Lady. Jane Cowl as a Washington woman-behind-the-throne, with brisk dialog by George S. Kaufman & Katharine Dayton. Jumbo. Paul Whiteman, Jimmy Durante, donkeys, deer and "dream women" in Billy Rose's new Hippodrome show. The Taming of the Shrew. Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne add new dimensions to a pleasant comedy by William Shakespeare. Winterset. Maxwrell Anderson's verse tragedy of a city's lower depths...
...young should like Jumbo...
Jimmy Durante, the man with no inhibitions, who is constantly searching among Jumbo's scores of females to find one who is not "face-crazy." Mr. Durante's big moment comes when he leads out the show's one elephant, points to the pachyderm's snout and then to his own, exclaims, "Me and him's related!" then suddenly finds that his relative has rolled over...