Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl Moran, 53, top-ranking painter of pretty-girl calendars, made answer to his wife's divorce charge that he had gone off to a convention in St. Paul with much-publicized Polka-Dot-Girl Chili Williams. Said he: he had invited his wife, but she wouldn...
Then to the rendezvous came the queen bee. Dave's Dream's weaponeers, two 26-year-old ensigns, David L. Anderson and Leon D. Smith, had armed the bomb within 20 minutes after takeoff. Soaring at 30,000 feet above the polka-dotted lagoon, Dave's Dream made a dry run into the northeast wind. Bombardier Major Harold H. Wood-known to his crewmates as "Lemon Bar" because of his success at officers'-club slot machines-twirled the knobs on his bombsight, tried to line up the target ship Nevada with the cross hairs...
...cacophonous String Quartet No. 3 and then played his familiar Transfigured Night, which he wrote in 1899, before he ran off the melodic rails. When Quartet No. 3 was over, the loudest applause came from the sixth row, where lively, gnomelike Schönberg, natty in a polka-dot bow tie, sat with his wife. The audience joined in more enthusiastically after Transfigured Night. Afterwards Schönberg said: "I have to hear my music ten times to understand it myself. It needs frequent hearing...
...confused with Polka-Dot-Girl Chili Williams...
...editors of the CRIMSON were chatting pleasantly and privately with Miss Chilli Williams in her dressing room backstage at the Wilbur Theatre when two members of the Dramatic Club were ushered in. A few minutes later, three members of the Jubilee Committee have into sight. Blinded by polka-dots, everybody had an angle and Miss Williams took all bids...