Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just go into a dime store and get a kid's story, twist it a bit and turn it into music"). His You Call Everybody Darling is the nation's No. 1 song hit. (His recording of it with his "Happiest Band in the Land" is also the No. 4 bestselling popular record.) And last week, "so people will be sure to identify it with me," Blackhawk customers were getting liberal doses of his latest number, Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes...
...Well, this is the bitter end of everything-my career, my home, my marriage. Sure, I've been smoking marijuana since I was a kid. I guess I always knew I'd get caught. My [estranged] wife and kids are on their way out here now. The stage was set for a big reconciliation. Ha! With that temper of hers, she'll turn right around and head back East . . . How does marijuana affect you? Well, try it yourself some time...
...certainly no Lubitsch trick that the lush countess, who at one point considers planting a dagger in her Hungarian's back, ends by dragging him briskly off to say "I do" to a priest, while snowflakes flutter past the window. The "nice-kid-after-all" formula is what the Grable public loves, and that is what it gets...
...young (22) guitarist in Joe Marsala's band, dropped in at Nick's old beer-and-sawdust joint, played some self-taught cornet and was hired on the spot to lead the band in a bigger place that Nick was starting. On opening night, the thin, bashful kid from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly...
...Kid Sister. Part of the reason is that the reader knows so much about Margy Shannon. What he learns of her is not what he ordinarily learns of the heroine of a romance, but the sort of information (with a few additions) one has about one's sister. The experience is less like reading a novel than it is like living in the same house with the girl. If she were not a nice girl to have around, the book would be intolerable. She is delightful, not in the sense of being winsome or charming, but in the sense...