Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bert Lahr is bilked by a stockbroker. But plenty of people will be amused by Cartoonist Robert Wildhack who brings to the footlights an old trick that made his Victor record, "Snores & Sneezes," famed some 20 years ago. Mr. Wildhack timidly comes onstage in cap & gown, nervously thumbing a notebook, to lecture on labial "Sound Phenomena." With authentic academic embarrassment, he takes up snores, classifies them scientifically, self-consciously illustrates them. Snore 2 d, the "Westinghouse Airbrake," a heart-rending grunt followed by a melancholy whistle, is probably excelled only by 2 f, "The Troubled Conscience," a short moan preceding...
Bainbridge Colby, 64, Wilson Secretary of State, with notebook in hand slowly proceeded through the Ford Building at A Century of Progress, painstakingly copying Ford aphorisms off the walls. Samples...
...Sorbonne professorship. This was the occasion of her first lecture. She appeared in a plain black working dress. She bowed politely, waited for the applause to stop, turned to her class sitting in a group. "Pierre Curie has prepared the following lesson for you," she said, and from a notebook began to read the lecture her husband had not delivered...
...slogan originated with a raw bus boy who, when Janssen asked him to summon the head waiter, shouted "Janssen wants to see you." To remind himself to reprimand the boy Janssen jotted the phrase in his notebook. Its catchiness appealed to him and he repeated it on 50 postcards, mailed them to his friends. Next night, he swears, all 50 appeared at his Hofbrau...
Only way to force the bill on to the floor was for 145 Representatives to sign a petition to withdraw it from the Ways & Means Committee. The petition was started, kept in a black notebook on the desk of the journal clerk. Day after day Representatives sidled up to the desk and signed. When 113 names were on the list Democratic Leader Byrns gloomily prophesied the total number would be reached. When the list neared 140 Speaker Rainey, who cannot control the House as Speakers Longworth and Garner used to do, paid a hurried visit to the White House, returned...