Word: libbing
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...Boys, oldtime radio harmony team; of bronchopneumonia; in Queens, N. Y. Old hands in show business, Ernie Hare and Tenor Billy Jones were hired by WJZ in 1921 for a song-and-patter experiment. Next year, as the Happiness Boys, singing the virtues of Happiness Candy, engaging in ad lib patter and chatter, they became the first nationally known radio team...
...lines typed in "red," the color he could see best. (The script had to be typed in green, which he saw as red.) Worst of the lot was 119-year-old Flora Williams, a onetime slave. Mrs. Williams had never learned to read, could memorize nothing, had to ad lib her interview with Commentator Gabriel Heatter. Even under the strain of broadcasting she could not keep awake, repeatedly had to be nudged out of a doze to answer questions...
...editorial writer, associate editor. He has long trained himself in extemporaneous public speech. At Harvard ('09), he won the Coolidge and Boylston prizes for debating and oratory, and for the last 16 years he has stepped to the microphone with only scribblings for script. His most exciting ad lib was the first broadcast ever made of war-from a bullet-ridden haystack between Spanish Leftist and Rightist lines, with cannon fire for sound effects. Not scared by war, he was not to be scared by a war scare. His comments throughout were calm, hopeful, accurate...
...what is usually a ten or twelve-day open-ocean trip. Chief feature of a French sentence to Guiana is that it means just half of what it says. A seven-year sentence is really for 14 years-seven years at hard labor, seven years as a libéré (freedman) confined to French Guiana. Any sentence for more than seven years is just a nice name for a life term, since the prisoner is then automatically condemned forever to the penal colony. It is usually the freedmen who escape...
...defeated R. M. Gallagher, 16-15, 16-15, 12-15, 11-15, 15-12; L. P. Marvin (H) defeated H. Barcley, 5-15, 10-15, 17-16, 15-10, 15-8; C. Stern (H) defeated S. S. Greeley, 15-13, 15-10, 11-15, 15-7; W. C. Ramsey (LIB) defeated N. R. Gidding, 16-14, 12-15, 15-10, 12-15, 18-16; J. C. Gildden (H) defeated C. H. Owsley...