Word: readin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of hours' entertainment. That many men would just clutter up the stage." The judge had to warn the audience not to laugh or applaud. Mae gave the rest of the cast an approving eye, told them: "You're doin' all right. The first readin' was terrific...
...never read 'em. I'm a constructive kinda person. Don't believe in readin' destructive kinda trash. The way I figger is those critics came up against a play that was so fine, so sincere, so puhfick they knew there wasn't anything they could write in praise would add to it. So they went off and panned it. See what I mean...
Jimmy wears glasses now ('"for readin' da racin' form'") and his hair, despite violent applications of every tonic known to barbers, has thinned ("I'm known as the surrey with the fringe on top"). But his Gargantuan energy is unabated. Suite No. 472 is never locked. Friends swarm through the place...
What was that remark? He's probably the only one they have? Fella, you haven't been around very much, have you--wotchya doin'--readin' C.I. all the time? Take that fella who sits next to him "Slush" Buskirk. The armed forces don't have to take Tommy Dorsey if they want a real trombone player. Heck, no, we've got the ace right here in our own ball park. And what about Merv Lysing on the sax? Minnesota sure lost a good bet when he went to Harvard here. And the rhythm section only two pieces, but man, they...
Must have a "Welcome" Department this week, so here 'its., Welcome home, Roger Abousamra. It was a long stay in yon hospital and we all's glad to see yo back in there readin', writin', and fightin'. Ben Graves is back, too, after a tussle with "a foreign body, non-traumatic," which, translated, means the removal of a metal, shoulder plate inserted when he busted a bone some time...