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...really good records. Some of these are: "Just a Mood" by the Teddy Wilson Quartet (Brunswick), a blues recording done with the aid of Red Norve (xylo-phone), Harry James (trumpet), and Johnny Simmons (bass). This is blues as it should be--quiet, relaxed, and with long, luscious ideas. Harry James plays phenomenally, although I suspect that most of his solo is swiped from several old Louis Armstrong records...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 2/16/1940 | See Source »

Here is the House. Vag feels his body submerged in moist warmth, luscious warmth. Walt is there too, in slippers and pajamas. Vag puts on slippers and pajamas. Hot chocolate and cookies, Tchaikowsky's Fifth Symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/16/1940 | See Source »

Spurning this luscious prospect, spurning Jesse Jones's surprise offer of $200,000 for Houston, members took Chicago, although Mayor Kelly had to stride up & down the aisle, acting as his own floor marshal; and the vote was close. In no time newspaper correspondents added it up as another sign of strength for the third-term drive, since Mayor Kelly had spoken for it. and even Chairman Farley had mentioned the 10,000,000 independent voters whose votes, third-termers believe, can be brought out only by glamorous, dramatic Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chicago-bound | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...disgrace to his semisavage comrades, but he turns coward under fire. Reclaimed by a well-placed shot and the ministrations of Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien), Jerry dies in battle. But this time valor is its only reward. There is not a girl in The Fighting 69th, luscious Priscilla Lane having been withdrawn at zero hour from the stag cast by what seems a prudent studio decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...problems. In particular he lamented the failure of airplanes to follow up the submarine Salmon's discovery and crippling of a German sea squadron last month. The submarine had to dive to escape, but not before it told the R. A. F., which then let slip a luscious chance to swoop on the enemy. "Since there is now no time for the Navy to organize its own air service," wrote the testy Admiral, "it is imperative that the coastal command [of R. A. F.], with a suitably equipped striking force of bombers and fighters attached, should be placed under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: To Keep Afloat | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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