Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paper Doll was written 28 years ago, after an unhappy love affair, by an improvident Broadway dance-hall violinist named Johnny Black. The song did not even find a publisher. Black shelved it and went to work on another, the durable Dardanella, which became the rage of 1919 and has been under continuous revival ever since. But, according to Tin Pan Alley's best-informed chroniclers, luckless Johnny Black sold Dardanella outright for $25, and, when he got around to suing Publisher Fred Fisher, who made a million out of it, netted only...
Sometimes weeping softly, sometimes roaring with rage, frog-voiced Mr. Riebel blamed all the troubles at Brewster on the "hellish" contract it had with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. He lashed out at the union's tough, headstrong boss, Tom De Lorenzo, impaled lesser officials as "punks and heels," denounced the local itself as that "gang of forty thieves." Carefully he explained that those opinions had grown in him only after he came to Brewster, last March. He had cozied up to the union. Said he: "I got in bed with Tom De Lorenzo, with the cover tucked...
...John Philip Sousa rest in peace; his marches are not being played in "jive tempo" and his scores are not being touched up with "hot licks and modern dance-hall harmonies." And let Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman forget his rage. He was misinformed...
Rhodes Scholars, solemnly charged the Tribune, are a group of subversive masterminds and intellectual saboteurs banded together in a "secret society" which constitutes a national peril.* Said the Tribune, wheezing with rage: "The Rhodes Scholars, whose education was intended to promote the betrayal of the U.S., have infiltrated our Federal Government. . . . The Scholarships were created to corrupt Americans...
...politician, crack shot and ex-college professor, he last week declared himself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of his home state. Local politicos conceded that the recent author of such twangy hits as Nobody's Darlin' But Mine and You Are My Sunshine (the rage of England) had a good chance of winning the election as well as the nomination...