Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later to be called "bloody" for its bitter strikes and brutal strikebreaking. His point: Franklin Roosevelt knows about coal mine management from personal experience...
...with nervous mannerisms and a beard which time has changed from red to an indefinite color. He were a blue sult, a wide-collared shirt with a loosely knotted tie and punctuated his remarks by throwing him self forward in his chair when he wanted to make a point. Once he Jumped onto the arm of his chair to illustrate that America was on the economic precipice and the ways in which a fall could be avoided...
...possibilities of the 150's going to England at the end of this year seem few. When he was questioned on this point Bert Haines smiled and said it would cost too much money, but he wasn't definite, and there have been rumors of an "angel" in the offing, which are unfounded...
...also sax, who is a Benny Carter disciple, the pianoman, and Ralph Hawkins, the drummer. It's unfair to place final judgment on the band as it has only had a few months' shaping, but if it quiets down and indulges in a little more relaxed rhythm, the end-point ought to be damn good...
Chief function of the Pops concerts is to provide music for the fun of it, and last evening's Harvard night was an outstanding success from that point of view. The program was for the most part clever, rhythmical music entirely pleasant to listen to. The Borodin "Polevetskian Dances," the Cimarossa and the Gilbert and Sullivan choruses were especially effective. There was a strikingly small amount of froth on the program, in fact, the finale from Piston's "Suite for Orchestra," a vigorous movement, full of strongly dissonant counterpoint, was a little meaty, perhaps, for such a casual audience. This...