Word: lil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cartoonist Richard Q. Yardley of the Baltimore Sun pictured Franklin Roosevelt as an Edgar Bergen with a whole lapful of Charlie McCarthy Senators all shouting "Yes!" and "Lil Davey" Lewis (Representative David Lewis, backed by the White House against Senator Tydings) climbing up to join them...
AMERICAN SONG ALBUM (The Madrigal Singers, Lehman Engel conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). Contains such odd bits of early Americana as Lilly Dale, Lubly Fan Will You Cum Out Tonight and Cocaine Lil. Unfortunately, the singing is spotty...
EZEKIEL-Elvira Garner-Holt ($1.50). An unpretentious children's book about "a lil' cullered boy, an' he names Ezekiel," who lives in Sanford. Florida with "he Pappy and he Mammy an' he Sister Emancipation an' he brudder Lil' Plural an' Assafetida, de baby." Although he and his family do not live up to the glorious promise of their names, Ezekiel has enough adventures in 39 pages to make the book one of the unexpected best sellers of the season...
...secretly assigned by President McKinley to investigate the operations of a band of Midwest bank-robbers whose uncanny efficiency suggests that they are in league with Government officials. Lieutenant Perry gets off to a flying start by falling in love with the gang's most eligible female member, Lil Duryea (Barbara Stanwyck) and is on the way to a brilliant solution of the case when President McKinley is shot, leaving Perry with no proof that he is a Government agent. Getting Perry out of jail entails the assistance not only of Lil but also of President Theodore Roosevelt...
...Steel Lips went on to say he took up the trumpet at the age of fourteen and worked first as a bugle boy in an army camp down in Louisiana. "The boys came runnin' fast for eats when I let go on that mess call." And now his trumpets ("Lil' Satchel-mouth") don't last up long under Louis' lung power. The intricate instrument of shining brass he plays today he's had only since 1933, and he's already ordered a new one made...