Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington with out a nick. Last year he wagered 3-to-2 with General Edwin Martin Watson, military aide to the President, that F. D. R. would not be renominated. "Pa" Watson collected three fresh $100 Cudahy bills, waved them over his head...
...national defense, Alcoa pointed to $26,000,000 worth of plant expansion in 1937, $30,000,000 worth last year. As for the ingot monopoly, Alcoa's claim has always been that anyone was at liberty to compete, but few had ever tried. Last week, in the nick of time to strengthen Alcoa's case, an ingot competitor hove into view...
...Green started his week in Louisville, where the stagehands (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Moving Picture Machine Operators) had convened. Among its bigwigs are, or were: Nick Dean (known to Chicago police as Nick Circella), Willie Bioff. Convicted once of assault with intent to murder, Nick has been arrested for robbery, stealing automobiles. After Columnist Westbrook Pegler's recent acrimonious cam paign, Willie Bioff was cast into jail to serve out an old sentence for pandering...
...pious folk a century ago believed that Nicolo Paganini was in league with the Devil; some swore they had seen Old Nick at the Italian violinist's side as he fiddled like the very devil himself. No one before him, and few after, could do what he did with a bow - extra long, for his abnormally long arm - and four strings. A haughty showman, he employed unusually thin strings, not only to produce extremely delicate harmonics (overtones two octaves higher than normal), but also, said some, so that he could break a string, use the remaining three as makeshift...
...very heavy and never really gets swinging . . . Tommy Dorsey's "April Plays The Fiddle" gets our vote as the most likely new tune most competently played . . . Benny Goodman's "The Sheik" keeps up the good standard the sextet has set--and shows for the first time what excellent drumming Nick Fatool is capable of . . . "Bluin' the Blues" is another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown" has the ost sudden shift this reviewer has ever heard...