Word: performer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York American's Christmas Fund, good people. Don't miss it. Famous musicians, jazz babies, black-bottom wrigglers, prima donnas perform as the freaks are led out. Get the most for your dollar...
...fear of after-effects. After Christmas the show will positively close. On the front pages, on the floor of Congress, everywhere, big boy Prosperity will perform alone. His ballyhoo brigade does its stunts twelve months in the year...
...farmers the President had fond words: "The whole question of agriculture needs more careful consideration. While the Government is not to be blamed for failure to perform the impossible, the agriculture regions are entitled to know that they have its constant solicitude and sympathy." If the farmers' desire for assistance is "matched by an equally sincere and candid consideration of the different remedies proposed, a sound measure of relief ought to result...
...Lind '29, will be the violin soloist of the evening, while Benjamin Brewster '27 will play the accordion and C. S. Henderson '28, will entertain as usual at the plane. K. A. Perry '28 will vocalize and Ogden Goolet '29 will perform in the specialty acts...
...difference between the hobo and the lowly bum, defining the former as "merely a migratory worker who travels to participate in construction work and to help with the harvests": a bum, on the other hand, is "a local fixture in almost every instance" and usually is intensely reluctant to perform any sort of labor...