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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Correctly pronounced, its first syllable rhymes with "palm." Most people prefer to rhyme it with...
...soldiers in the South are from the North, and are not prepared for the bitterness of discrimination there. To them the fact that they are colored has meant discomforts, but never degradation and violence. The habit of an unfortunate prejudice must be met with compromise, but there is no rhyme nor reason in the present policy, which is pregnant with trouble and unnecessary bitterness. It is bad enough that the U. S. Military system should allow Joe Louis to contribute $47,100 to an organization which refuses him permission to serve under it, though it allows the Negro equal opportunity...
...Rhyme of the week: To Be Specific, It's Our Pacific...
...Banjo Eyes" is the musical comedy version of that slap-happy farce of several seasons ago, "Three Men on a Horse," Eddie Cantor, whom most of us have never seen on the stage, hoofs his way through the part of Erwin Trowbridge, a greeting-card rhyme writer who dreams hot tips about horse races. He falls into the hands of a gambler, Lionel Stander, who Jocks him in a hotel apartment and makes him dream up tips. Then there is Erwin's wife, Stander's moll, a lot of snappy lines, one or two good songs, and Banjo Eyes...
...such a pretty rhyme...