Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never seen Sidney knew all about him, from hearing the old records. He shut up his tailor shop and started to play again-usually in small groups, including one of his own called the "New Orleans Feetwarmers." Unlike his friend "Satchelmouth" Armstrong, he refused to front for bigtime, second-rate bands...
Four years as an "almost good enough" oarsman at the University of Washington under Rusty Callow, now at Penn, were good enough training for Bolles to rate a Freshman coaching berth at his Alma Mater. Nine years as a Washington coach were also enough to convince College athletic officials that Bolles was the man and he was lured away to be Varsity mentor here in 1936. Since then, except for a three-year so journ in the Navy, he has reigned with a battered, grey felt crown on his head, at the Newell Boat House...
...opening Palestrina works, a Sanctus for high and a Supplicationes for low voices were, perhaps, the best of the sacred offerings. The Radcliffe group has mellowed in the past year, although an absence of really first-rate soprano voices is still evident in the lovely Sanctus. Singing the Supplicationes with fine balance and diction, the low voices sacrificed some precision as Professor Woodworth wisely kept to the earnest simplicity of this work...
...Wallace's reports, speeches and articles then & later.) Some measures of the quality of F.D.R.'s earliest advisers is suggested when Roosevelt tagged Wallace "Old Man Common Sense." But to Milo Reno, a farm-audience spellbinder of the early '30s, "Wallace would make a second-rate County Agent if he knew a little more." And blunt AAAdministrator George Peek (whom Lord respects), wrote: "[Wallace] tended rather to specialize in the study of corn, and was a dreamy, honest-minded and rather likable sort of fellow. He had a mystical, religious side to him, and, never having been...
...wrote at the end of it: "When the angry strife of the day has passed . . . then a future artist will discover beautiful forms for depicting past lawlessness and chaos! Then such [works as this] so long as they are sincere . . . will be of use. . . . They will preserve at any rate some faithful traits by which one may guess what may have lain hidden in the heart of some raw youth of that troubled time...