Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been said that they could have had a fourth player had they deigned to play with their subalterns. *Other versions of Bridge's ancient "green suit" story substitute for Mr. Lena's Parsee a traveling salesman, Pat and Mike, a pink elephant...
...Nigger Mike...
...Braves Field at 1.15 o'clock, the University Second baseball team will be represented by a former and a present coach. Fred Lake, who tutored the Crimson scrubs to last year's win over Yale, will be behind the bat, stopping the curves of "Iron-man" Joe McGinnity and Mike Lynch, while Fred Parent, the present mentor of the Seconds, will be cavorting among the daisies in the shortstop position...
Irving Berlin once worked as a waiter in Nigger Mike's, an East Manhattan saloon. His talent was schooled by the clink and shuffle of a nickelodeon. Critics have often pointed meaningly to this fact saying that a man who could emerge from such a background with an equipment as fine as Mr. Berlin's?lacking perhaps the sophistication of George Gershwin, the light-foot fantasy of Jerome Kern, but authentic and interesting nevertheless?must be indeed a genius. So the phrase"Words and Music by Irving Berlin" has come to mean certain things to the U. S. public...
...streets to burial merits no description. And the words?like the words of "All Alone", like the words of "Remember", like the words of all Mr. Berlin's songs except, possibly "I'm a K. P."?are exactly the words one would expect a waiter in Nigger Mike's Cafe to write, in a trickly moment, on a beer-stained menu, behind the nickelodeon...