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...path. "The little fat one on the end will never make it. Wait till we get him down on Soldiers Field; will he sweat! Push-ups. Ha!" With a grunt of superior satisfaction Vag felt himself settling back into the well known channels of college life. He'd learnt something from his three years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 6/27/1942 | See Source »

...same time there was a strong pacifist movement and many time there was a strong pacifist movement and large numbers of undergraduates signed declarations that in the event of war breaking out they would refuse to fight. This did not seem to be surprising. They had learnt that war settled nothing and they had seen for themselves that by reason of the last war life was in every way more difficult than it had been before; there was less wealth in the country, it was harder to get a job and the future was uncertain for all of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOMERSET MAUGHAM PRAISES LEVELLING EFFECT OF ARMY | 1/8/1941 | See Source »

...Moonglow on 145th Street (highly recommended!) which had some of the best orchestra piano I had heard in a long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play a lot of very fast and fancy right hand work, leaving the rhythm and the chord changes of the left...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...wear their uniforms, himself appeared in the House of Lords in Scout shorts. Commented the London Evening Standard: "His costume aroused little comment. Ever since Lord De la Warr entered the House during the last war in the bell-bottomed trousers of an able-bodied seaman, their lordships have learnt to take many strange uniforms in their stride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...wholehearted cooperation. The Mikado cost about $1,000,000. Newcomers to Gilbert & Sullivan in its cast are pretty little Jean Colin (Yum-Yum) and Kenny Baker (Nanki-Poo), U. S. radio singer imported for the part. Of Baker the unmollified London Times remarked: "He seems to have learnt English in some place nearer to Japan than London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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