Word: panful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor to Producer White's Black Bottom. Sorriest Scandal: John L. Lewis picketing a bedded couple who refuse to join a union...
...Pan Blanco was the big news in Spain last week: white bread. The reappearance of white-flour bread was hailed as a final sign of convalescence. More important, its reappearance was a sign that Spain is determined to continue convalescing, and not relapse into another war-of any one's making...
Last June Pan American and last month Imperial Airways launched transatlantic airmail services between Port Washington, L.I. and Europe. Both have been hightailing along (with few exceptions) right on schedule, despite the war jitters that convulsed shipping (see p. 40). Their timetable...
...Pan American: (Eastbound) leaves Port Washington Wednesday 12 noon, E.S.T., arrives Marseille Friday 3 p.m., G.C.T.; leaves Port Washington Saturday 7:30 a.m., E.S.T., arrives Southampton Sunday 1 p.m., G.C.T. (Westbound) leaves Marseille Sunday 8 a.m., G.C.T., arrives Port Washington Tuesday 7 a.m., E.S.T.; leaves Southampton Wednesday 12 noon, G.C.T., arrives Port Washington Thursday 3 p.m., E.S.T...
Humorist Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, 63, lying ill of an abused stomach in a San Francisco hospital, sat up in bed ("like a bullfrog in a pan of milk," said one reporter), and told the press: 1) "I can't say that the X-ray pictures flatter me. One of them looked like a plaster cast of Madam Perkins. I am having them retouched." 2) "Now I have to quit eating anything fit to eat, smoke nothing, drink nothing, and go to bed at 7 p. m. This is calculated to make me live at least five years longer...