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...Lanza has said, "Caruso was nowhere, nohow, nothing. I don't think I'm as great a singer as Caruso because you never think you are as good as your idol, even though others may say you are better. But at 29, Caruso used to crack on a high B-flat, and I have a record to prove it, which is nothing against him, of course. Sure, I haven't sung in the Met yet. But the day I do, all hell will break loose, the way it did in pictures. The world hasn't heard...
...Williams (himself one of the leading Thespians of the Economics Department) it was a bit of a surprise to see some two hundred cash customers waiting for seats in the Metropolitan lobby. Let us grant the truth of the lyric that "without a song a man's no good nohow" and say that those people were waiting to hear a song, "42nd Street." They had heard it, perhaps, as the Playgoer did, over the radio the night before. Even in the stage show, the best sequence was some hotcha dance routine by three white-draped cuties impelled by the tune...
...attitude toward Americans since they have acquired some money they have stopped sneering at you in the streets and confine their feelings to the family circle. And then there is always that American attitude that a young girl on the steamer rather pungently expressed She didn't like Europe 'nohow...
...grammar all his own. 'A nigger-lipped sand-lapper,' was the description of one opponent. He described the unwillingness of politicians to leave office as, 'You cain't cut a feller offen his clabber.' His enemies, he said, 'ain't worth hating, nohow...
...would place Congress in control of every home in the land between parent and child. State Representative McCorsey said much the same thing in more vigorous idiom: "I don't want any more monkeying with the buzz-saw by that bunch in Washington. We don't mix nohow. We weren't born under the same régime and don't drink out of the same bottle. We don't want them interfering with our affairs...