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...together they tot up to a highest common denominator of good U. S. design. Laymen who looked at them could see the shape of housing things to come: a decline of the dining room, an increasing use of plywood-the club sandwich of wood and glue that can lick its weight in steel...
...well-known to Franklin Roosevelt, who slept and fished and yarned last week aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa in Cocos' Chatham Bay, with the radioed permission of Costa Rica's President León Cortés Castro. On his fourth visit* to the peaceful blue waters that lick Cocos' shores the President was still only after fish; still had only meagre fisherman's luck. Back in Panama the natives were swearing by the Roosevelt luck (he arrived on Feb. 18; No. 18 turned up in the lottery); out in the Pacific he was most likely swearing...
...idea was not brand-new. It had been tried before in the '90s. But the peep-show flickers of those days were often patchy and scratchy, and the machines usually stalled. Fred Mills was satisfied that his company could lick the machine problem with a neat projector and 18-by-24-inch mirror screen. It could show 16 or 35 mm. shorts to the U. S. cinemillions outside the movie houses, if Hollywood could provide the shorts...
First of all, the tune originated at the Savoy in New York where it was used as a run-off lick--that meaning the phrase used to warn customers that the particular set of tunes is over and to warn the band to come back on the stand. Hawkins took the thing, patterned it after some of the old Lunceford originals and recorded it for Bluebird...
Seen through blurred eyes, his reflected image was in a constant flux of alternate expansion and contraction. Do what he would, one lick of hair insisted on standing straight up in the air, and the knot in his tie would never assume the proper Mount Auburn Street air. Completely overwhelmed by this terrifying mechanical monster, he was incapable of simulating any form of non-chalance--the all-essential part of the successful Harvard...