Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that any attempt to revive the Hawaiian mood which burgeoned in 1913 somehow becomes tawdry, tasteless, stagey. The booming Viennese melodies and waltzes that Rudolf Friml has provided for Luana may seem less incongruous, more tuneful when heard removed from the setting of papier-mache palm trees, skirts of all grasses and emaciated, brown-powdered chorus boys. Robert Chisholm (Golden Dawn, Sweet Adeline}, as a drunken beachcomber, does some powerful chanting with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein, a luscious-looking lady who sings well but whose speaking voice is throaty to the point...
...from a long line of professional soldiers, he fought in South Africa, Ashanti, North Nigeria, Zululand, then retired from the army. In 1914 he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers with the rank of Captain. During the next five years he won the D.S.O., C.M.G., C.B., Croix de Guerre with palm, was mentioned seven times in despatches, left the War a Brigadier. A capable officer, a soldier who knew his trade, General Crozier has no illusions about war, tells his trade secrets with amazing candor. "My own experience of war, which is a prolonged one, is that anything may happen...
...sight until he left town. Federal District Judge Halsted L. Ritter who had granted Capone an injunction against warrantless arrest by Florida sheriffs refused to broaden his order to include the Miami police. But Capone was temporarily free to fight the city's padlock petition against his Palm Island home...
...from preparatory school to college in yesterday's CRIMSON contained many points too important for the purposes of the CRIMSON's survey to he overlooked. After attacking the narrowness and specialization of the College Entrance Board Examinations the New Hampshire school superintendent states that it is still possible to palm off on the colleges second-rale intelligence as first-rate intelligence." Such sleight-of-hand, the article explains is due to the fact that a specialized examination, as the Walew Las shown can be prepared for in a specialized way, and that almost anyone can be shoehorned into college...
...State of Florida last week was acutely conscious of the presence of its most notorious resident, Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone of Chicago, No. 1 gangster of the U. S. Capone had gone to his Palm Island estate at Miami to "rest" (TIME, April 28). Instead, he spent most of his time running back and forth between State and Federal courts to keep himself from being ejected from his home and from Florida...