Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above lyrics from the newly-released Billie Holiday (Commodore Music Shop) of "Strang Fruit" are part of one of the most amazing mood records ever cut. Miss Holiday's singing, done in a bitterly poignant manner, makes even sharper the commentary on American democracy that this song conveys. Why does a colored band get one third as much money as a while band of equal ability. Why does a man have to go to the Supreme Court to he allowed to pay for his training as a lawyer? Why do political partics allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang...
Notes between the notes: The new Count Basic of "Miss Thing" was made under some unusual conditions. Late one night after a recording session at the Brunswick studio, some of the big-wigs in the studio asked the Count to play the "Miss" which he had just written a few days before in Boston. Count did, and unbeknownst to the band, the rendition was recorded on a 16-inch master in the control room. The result, released this week on two sides of a Vocalion record, is very loose and easy with a tricky last chorus--the best...
...Rochester Reliefer is Miss Mabel McFiggins. "I used to work in a button factory," said middle-aged Miss McFiggins, "but that was a long time ago. My arthritis, y'know." Along with others on local relief in Rochester, Miss McFiggins last week received her semimonthly check from the city welfare department. She then did something that Reliefers had never done before. She bought a booklet of orange and blue stamps issued by the U. S. Government, thus became the first feminine guinea pig in an experiment designed by the Department of Agriculture to relieve the glut of surplus farm...
...orange stamps, she also got 50? in blue stamps. These were premiums, given to her by the U. S. Government. They also could be "spent" at any grocery, but only for farm produce officially listed as surplus: butter, eggs, flour, cornmeal, prunes, dried beans, citrus fruits. Grocers who took Miss McFiggins' stamps, or wholesalers who accepted them as payment from retailers, can cash them for ordinary money at any bank, for they are drafts on the U. S. Treasury...
...slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss Tighe, "are absolutely complete...