Word: mc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether "Young Man With a Horn" and "Send Mc Down" had succeeded or not in presenting the average reader with a just interpretation and evaluation of jazz, they undoubtedly awakened in many a soupeon or two of curiosity about the music which gave each book its background, just as "The Grapes of Wrath" evoked a nation-wide sigh of sympathy for the Okies. But neither novel contained enough purple passages to inspire anyone to tear around to the nearest music store and buy up all the Louis Armstrong records on the shelves...
Herbert S. Allen Jr., Manchester, N.H., Phillips Exeter Academy; Stanley R. Ashby Jr., Orono, Mc., Groton School; Paul Coste Jr., Jamestown, R.I., Kent School; Roger L. Creighton, Belment, New Hampton School; John J. Dorgan Jr., Providence, R.I., Classical High School; Kenneth Fremont-Smith, Cambridge, Phillips Exeter Academy; Alan N. Houghton, West Hartford, Conn., Loomis School; John D. Kendall, Fairfield, Conn., Wooster School; Ernest L. Levinger, Fitchburg, George Washington School, N.Y.C...
George B. McMcnnamin, Rumford, Mc., Stephens High School; William S. Malcom, Norfolk, Conn., St. Paul's School; Ellery R. Purdy Jr., Rutland, Vt., Phillips Exeter Academy; DeForest P. Rudd II, Boston, Edewood School; Ward B. Sanford, Hartford, Conn., Loomis School; George T. Terrien, Nashua, N. H., Nashua High School; Peter B. Tomkins, Washington, Conn., The Gunnery School; Philip Troen, Portland, Mc., Portland High School; Roger C. Tyler, Weston, Phillips Exeter Academy; and Richard P. Voegele, Danbury, Conn., Danbury High School...
...sued Comedian Oliver Hardy for $96,757 income taxes, Victor Mc-Laglen for $6,113, Comedienne Zasu Pitts for $426. // 11 Beauty Connoisseur Earl Carroll sued Paramount for $300,000, charging A Night at Earl Carroll's had done that much damage to his reputation as a producer. // Franchot Tone told the district attorney he gave a jeweler $14,100 to buy a diamond-and-sapphire clip, sell it, and split the profits; but the jeweler put the clip in hock and never gave back the money. // Nelson Eddy and stepson settled an $8,723 damage suit against them...
...Investigator Edwin N. Atherton reported that McDonough Bros, controlled men all through the police department, was "a fountainhead of corruption, willing to interest itself in almost any matter designed to defeat or circumvent the law." No one could open a bawdy house or gambling dive without Mc-Donough approval, and a McDonough okay was insurance that the police would rarely drop around except for a payoff. The payoff ran into staggering figures. San Francisco's 135 "regular, old-established" brothels and its hundreds of freelance tarts paid $400,000 a year for protection, its bookmakers $180,000; total take...