Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Save in Maine, which held its election last month, and to the one-party Southern States where elections are mere formalities, the eardrums of the U. S. suffered last week as much as Pennsylvania's. With election day but a fortnight away the magnavox of Politics blared from every stump and hilltop, filling the air with civic sense and nonsense, but most of all with partisan fury...
Rachmaninoff lived to regret the popularity of his Prelude. He himself gave it more than 1,000 performances in the U. S. alone, got so sick of it that the mere sound of its three opening crashes gave him the creeps. Once, when asked in an interview how it should be played, he wrung his hands and replied hoarsely: "I do not care! They can play it any way they choose just so long as they do not play it where I can hear...
...amuse themselves by a sleepy race on rocking horses, frightening five cocker spaniel puppies and misbehaving at the tea table. To an outsider the only plausible excuse for the Dionnes' attitude is that they feel themselves underpaid. For their first picture they got only $50,000 which was mere diaper pin money. Their present contract calls for $300,000 plus royalty but their next one should be even more favorable...
...details that make the story unmistakably real: "The were newspapers on the floor, French ones, old and yellowing, gritty with dust, their emphatic black headlines staring up at the ceiling as they had been staring ever since the old chief had left them there." Yet these are more than mere details, they all add something to the impression the author is trying to create. She goes on to say "and none of these things mattered now, I thought, none of these emphatic headlines, those photographed faces, those men hurrying to meetings. I wondererd how much they ever mattered to Porto...
...cream of Manhattan's swing spots, Pundit Panassie concluded that the U.S.,Manhattan, and Manhattan's Harlem were "marvelous," but that "jeeterbogs" were an unmitigated nuisance. He further concluded that a concert of jazz music was a "seely idea," that the rising generation of "cats" are mere kittens compared with the classic Louis Armstrong, "Bix" Beiderbecke and "Fots Wallair." His present favorites: Count Basic at the Famous Door, Sidney Bechet and Zutie Singleton, whose jamming is a nightly feature at Nick's Tavern, Manhattan...