Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raggy britches there's a lot of riches...
...radio adviser to Father Coughlin switched off Tommy Dorsey's band right in the middle of their swing. The trouble was they were swinging Loch Lomond. Said Manager Fitzpatrick: "It is a sacrilege to make a swing version of a tune sacred to a lot of Scotsmen." Cleveland's WGAR and Beverly Hill's KMPC nodded their heads, pursed their lips and proclaimed a ban on swing versions of eleven old songs, including Comin' Thro' the Rye. At Manhattan's Onyx Club, where swarthy, honey-voiced Maxine Sullivan had been singing the song...
...lot of people disliked the old Robert Taylor (for one reason or another) but a lot more are going to dislike the new Robert Taylor. He is a big, virile fellow--courtesy of M. G. M.--with incredible athletic prowess, a fine disdain for the weaker sex. He carries his beauty with boyish modesty. And just to rouse the dormant nationalism in the breast of every true American, he has gone to England--courtesy of M. G. M.--and taken it by storm. "A Yank at Oxford," now at Loew's, is a domestic flop which promises to become...
There was such an enthusiastic response to the competition for the three prizes of $7.50, $5, and $3, that the Union Committee, which is sponsoring the show, will have to eliminate the contestants by lot...
...practicing every day last week, the Harvard rugby team has begun to take definite shape for its game with Cambridge University on Saturday, March 26th. In the early part of the week practice was held indoors in the small Carey cage. But though hampered by lack of space, a lot of valuable ground-work was done. With the beginning of outdoor practice on Thursday, the ruggers were able to put on their cleats and get a real work-out. Contact work started at once, and scrimmages were hold both Thursday and Friday. The Crimson showed generally good tackling and hard...