Word: partners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gravel Throat." Barris, the son of an old Coney Island partner of Eddie Cantor's, was a song writer of considerable savor (I Surrender, Dear; It Must Be True; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams). He was also such a cocky little entertainer that the partners nicknamed him "Mr. Show Business." He worked up a fast routine with himself and Rinker at baby pianos, Crosby at his baby cymbal, rapid patter, breaks, and percussive slamming of the piano top by Barris himself. He wrote Mississippi Mud. The Rhythm Boys' record of it, with Crosby's doleful passage about...
Quiet, well-dressed Thomas Sovereign Gates, 16th President of the University of Pennsylvania, onetime Morgan partner, welcomed students at the beginning of the new college year. As quoted by the New York Times, he offered his charges a ripe, fallacious enthymeme. Said he: "Twice isolationism has failed and now we must ask ourselves whether it will save us a third time...
Calling in melody's bewildring thrill Whilst through dim leaves its partner dreams and glances...
...Raymor is as much an unofficial part of Harvard as its next-door neighbor on Huntington Avenue, Symphony Hall. It is inhabited by lonely girls who are just aching for a dancing partner. You pay $.50 to get in and then you ask whom you will to dance. There are no more charges, and you may escort the young lady to her home if you wish, and if she's willing...
...Francisco's earthquake jolted Storekeeper Luhn out of the fifth grade, set him to selling newspapers. After service as an artillery private in World War I, he went back to San Francisco to work for the man who owned the shop he owns now. (His partner, astute Mrs. Alice Argus Brady, was bookkeeper for the former owner.) His 96-year-old grandmother takes care of Bachelor Luhn. He says of her: "She is very important...