Word: misteres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deer Mister Laverne and La Flange...
Newsmen, calling Bronx citizens, got day-by-day communiqués on the battle. They also got a few rebukes. One citizen shouted into the phone: "Listen, mister, this is a delicatessen. With all these people lined up for cold cuts, I should talk to you about cockroaches...
Sensible Prentiss Brown would rather be a Mister than a Czar, and he believes the wheedle is better than the wallop. By last week he had made marked progress in converting OPA from a public-be-damned bureaucracy into a group of people who are trying to help the U.S. somehow live through...
Contented by all this is a 5 ft. 4 in., 291 Ib. Negro vocalist named Jimmy Rushing, who last week was shouting Mister Five By Five with Count Basic's band at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Jimmy Rushing knew who the U.S. public was singing about. It was singing about Jimmy Rushing...
...stage for his number, "that guy's just about five by five." "That," said Tunesmith De Paul, "is an idea for a song." By the time the evening was over, Raye and De Paul had written the song out complete-on a paper napkin. Four years later Mister Five By Five, plugged to popularity by Bandleader Freddie Slack...