Word: naming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said this for two years now, predicting that he would go to the top very shortly, and Jimmy has saved our face by breaking every record in sight with the most disgusting regularity for the past nine months. Down in Atlantic City this summer with lots of the name bands around, including his brother Tommy, Jimmy managed to gather some thousands of dance fans around for a new house record. Reason for this sort of thing is very simple: Jimmy has one of the very few bands that play good dance music, good swing, have good soloists, a colorful style...
During his first four years in Washington Count Jerszy Potocki has carried on with skill and ensuing popularity the routine duties of Polish ambassador. Rarely did his name appear in print; and then usually at official receptions. He lived the life of an ambassador in the spirit of the sportsman. His days belonged to the hounds, to tennis, to dancing. Wherever he mixed, his charm prepared the way for closer American friendship with Poland...
...then--September, 1939. War brought a new way of life. As the German advance careened through Poland, first silence, then tension and despair gripped the embassy at Washington. The name of Potocki took on a new meaning, not just spokesman for Poland, but the leader, the unifying strength of thousands of Poles in America who listened eagerly to his every message of hope. On September 19th, as Warsaw held out for the last straw of independence, Potocki was already looking to the future: "If the enemy shall succeed in Poland, the time will come, as it has so often...
...Every year since 1934 she has held a religious service on Belle Isle (between Detroit and Windsor, Ont.) at sunrise on Easter Morning. At these services Nancy buries herself in the crowd, her face hidden in the fur collar of her coat. Few of her contributors know her real name, and she knows few of theirs...
...contributor who signed his name "Angus" suggested light-weight chimes (which cost less) instead of heavy, cast bells. One who called himself "Banker" urged Nancy to hasten, lest inflation raise the cost of the tower. Alarmed, Nancy's donors redoubled their efforts. By last month she had raised $27,700, still needed around $20,000 more. One morning "Banker" came in person to her office, offered to lend her the rest without interest...