Word: named
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this big man, one of our truly big Americans, is pro-British. Why? All the big Butlers, the poet W. Butler Yeats, General Butler in the World War I, Justice Butler of our Supreme Court, to name a few, were and are Irish...
TIME lives up to its name. It is timely. It knows and prints things that are not found elsewhere. This week [Sept. 25] under the word Prodigy it has a notice of Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous," he deserves it) Butler's autobiography, in which it states that he comes from an ancestry of "preachers, educators...
...once remarked to a critic that if I were to name the four or five violinists whom I considered the greatest artists, he wouldn't recognize the names of more than one or two of them...
...administrative tact, Mr. Conant chose as Plan Chairman a man who had real interest in the program and a willingness to devote his abilities to it. But pressure of duties in his new rank as assistant dean have forced him to resign and the President has failed to name any successor. The possibilities for the position are apparently limited in the presidential mind to the members of the Committee sponsoring the Plan: the professors of American History and Literature. But one of these is following in the wake of Columbus, another is writing a book, a third is too busy...
...York's Harlem a short time ago, I wandered into a session at the Moonglow on 145th Street (highly recommended!) which had some of the best orchestra piano I had heard in a long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play a lot of very fast...