Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Southern Harmony" - a collection of hymns, set to folk tunes, which he published in 1835. Southern Harmony sold 600,000 copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In his arrangements for part-singing, Walker, like other rural teachers of the time, used queer "shape-notes" (square, triangular, diamond, round) which were supposed to make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished, for it is disgusting in the performance...
...until railroads have money to invest they refuse to make money either for themselves or Baldwin by borrowing to buy new equipment. Should the New Deal, however, decide to fight Recession II by priming heavy industry instead of consumer purchasing power, it is likely to choose railroad equipment (either forming a corporation to rent equipment to tho roads or guaranteeing loans enabling them to buy it) as one of the surest, quickest ways to gain its end. The figure New Dealers like to quote as a "minimum" of new locomotives needed to modernize the U. S. rolling power plant...
Married. Burnice Smith, 25, granddaughter of the super-social George Washington Kavanaughs; and Bandmaster Eddie LeBaron (real name: Eduardo Alba-lini de Gastine), 32; after eloping to Yonkers, N. Y. Snobbed Grandfather Kavanaugh: "We don't like it a bit. It doesn't fit in with our social background...
...fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Result : the far-sighted men opened fire at 75 feet, the normal-visioned at 50, the near-sighted never fired at all, were presumably "skewered on enemy bayonets.'" Explained Moran: "I'm doing this because I like to have...
...Detroit, Bus Driver Guy Hinton, fed up with years of driving the same old route, felt the need of a change. He turned off his prescribed route, went left or right whenever he felt like it, finally just drove in circles. Said he to startled passengers: "You can't get off until I'm ready to stop...