Word: newark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, in Vanity Fair in 1926 wrote Carl Van Vechten, pioneer literary drumbeater for U. S. Negroes. Author Van Vechten had just been to a vaudeville house in Newark, N. J. to hear the greatest of Negro blues singers, Bessie Smith. Vanity Fair added an innocent editorial note to his article: "Soon, doubtless, the homely Negro songs of love-sickness known as the Blues, will be better known and appreciated by white audiences." Actually, of course, Bessie Smith was old and revered stuff to many a U. S. jazz lover. But in 1926 she was at the height...
What the little World Series is to the Big, the Harvard-Yale soccer game is to the football game. As Harlow's men are pregame Giants and Yale the Yanks, so are the Blue and Crimson booters--one the Newark Bears and the other the Columbus Red Birds...
...them about 15%. So loud and prolonged was the outcry from United and American that after six months the three compromised on a middle rate between the new low and the old high-well justifying TWA's snort that "whatever the squawk, it costs less to travel from Newark to Chicago than it did a year ago, thanks to us." Last week TWA again set fire to the passenger fare structure, horrifying its rivals by suddenly introducing nationwide air "excursions" that for the first time put general airplane travel below most standard railroad and Pullman rates...
Much of the Friends of Music's artistic excellence, and much of its almost vestal atmosphere, is the work of a dark-haired, dark-eyed pianist who took part in last Sunday's opener-Hortense Monath, 29. In her native Newark, N. J., Hortense Monath took slight interest in piano practice until she was twelve, was not much keener about it until, on her 16th birthday, she heard Schnabel play. Then, she says, "I grew up in one day." Schnabel, who had learned Latin from her father, took Pianist Monath as pupil, still coaches her although she made...
...rooms that they operated with windows open in the dead of winter. Five years later he worked out an engineering formula for atmosphere-moisture which made people begin calling him "the father of the airconditioning industry." And by 1915 he had enough capital to start Carrier Engineering Corp. in Newark...