Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis, another boogie record by Pinetop Smith, and "Rosetta" with an all-star band. Fine jazz plus excellent recording make this tips...Catch the Duke's recording of "Aint The Gravy Fine" (Vocalion) if you want nice bounce rhythm and a salacious vocal ... After a little checking of master plate numbers, confirmed my guess that jimmy Dorsey's "Arkansas Traveler" was recorded about a year age. Good dise, but the style isn't as good as the one the band now uses.... Listen to Johnny Kirby's record of "Pastel Blues" (Decca) and you won't go near...
Into the store to the company lawyer rocketed Salvador Dali, sizzling in Spanish and French. Next thing Bonwit's knew the Surrealissimo was in the window with the bathtub. "Oomph" went the tub as he jerked it from the moorings. "Crash" went Bonwit Teller's beautiful plate-glass window as the small struggling artist and his tub went through it and lit "bang" on the sidewalk...
...surrealistic sight of a Parisian racing through his native streets with his head thrust through a cane chair-seat, a pair of garters streaming from his back and a license plate and a pot of vegetables in either hand, is not a sign of galloping national debility due to continental complications. Frenchmen know, and others soon learn, that the galloper is merely out to win the 200-franc ($5.30) prize, offered each afternoon by the private radio station Paste Parisien in its Course au Trésor, a radio scavenger hunt patterned after one which Paris loved in the droll...
...sample day the call went out for a scuttle of coke, a picture of soldiers, a bi cycle saddle attached to the back, twelve marbles on a flat plate, a package of dried fruits, five francs in 50-centime pieces, a piece of cloth tied around the leg, a mineral-water bottle label, one hand drawn on a piece of white paper and the ability to conjugate on arrival, while standing, the imperfect subjunctive of the verb s'asseoir (to sit down).* It is interesting and profitable work for housewives, youths and the unemployed, who have the after noon...
...avoid scenes at table, serve attractive, tasty dishes in small helpings, be cheerful, never nag. If a child still fails to eat, remove his plate after 20 minutes without comment...