Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dancers, played a "lick" for me to which the words "Hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight -want some seafood mama ! Shrimpers and rice, they're very nice" went. The two boys explained that they had heard the words and music either in a New York or Philadelphia night club where a colored band was playing. . . . We made a recording of the words and music to that point in a Broadway automaton shop for which we paid 25?. Nothing further was done about the song until last November when the Andrews Sisters, whom I manage . . . were in Philadelphia...
Anastasio Somoza visited the U. S. 22 years ago, to enroll in a Philadelphia night school to study accounting. When President Coolidge sent the marines to Nicaragua to suppress revolutionary Augusto
...afternoon last week he went by tender to the cruiser Philadelphia, which with other visiting ships was open to the public. He strutted the deck, confidently introduced himself to a real lieutenant, promptly met more naval officers than even he had dreamed of. The real lieutenant noted the bogus buttons, the stripes a little too high on his sleeve, a real Rear Admiral and a real Commander decided he was no spy, whisked him off the ship, plopped him into a city jail. Next day, instead of sending John Husted to jail for impersonating an officer, they condemned...
...full chorus, boys' choir, a 102-man symphony orchestra and a choir of brass instruments off stage. One of the most impressive of 20th-century symphonic works, Mahler's immense, unwieldy, hour-and-a-half-long symphony is seldom performed. When Leopold Stokowski played it in Philadelphia 23 years' ago, proud Philadelphians crowed as though they had hatched a world's series baseball team. But Cincinnatians just took it in their stride, put it on the same program with another hour-long choral epic, sat calmly through them both, then thundered their approval...
Died. Arthur J. Smith, 41, frustrated Führer of the fascistic "Khaki Shirts of America, Inc.", of heart disease; in Shamokin, Pa. In 1933 "Commander-in-Chief" Smith claimed 6,000,000 recruits, established headquarters in Philadelphia, announced plans to march on Washington. When his plans fizzled, Smith...