Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doll & Tears. In one morning, Shirley Temple's crony and hero, Tap Dancer Bill Robinson, who was in The Little Colonel and The Littlest Rebel, taught her a soft-shoe number, a waltz clog and three tap routines. She learned them without looking at him, by listening to his feet. She appreciates the show-business slogan, "The show must go on" so thoroughly that it serves to repress her reactions to the bumps &; bangs sustained in acting. In Captain January she fell over a lamp and hurt her leg. On another occasion she slammed a door on her hand...
...asked him whether he knew the Hollywood notables whose names were in it. On learning that he knew none of them, she lost interest in him, disrespectfully inquired later how he came to be a general. She likes vaudeville jokes, frequently repeats an impudent riddle she learned from Bill Robinson: "How's the tailoring business?" "So-so." On sitting down to a game of squares, she humiliates her opponents by saying, "There're no spots on your suit, but you're going to the cleaners...
...sole tally for the Varsity Lacrosse team when they were swamped by Princeton's stellar stickmen Saturday 9-1. The victors scored in every period. Once more the Crimson outfit's inexperience counted heavily against it. The line-up: PRINCETON HARVARD Britten, p p, Bedell, cp cp, Whitteman Robinson, 1d 1d, Deering, 2d 2d, Duffley McLean, c c, Moyer, 2a 2a, Cleveland Woodward, 1a 1a, Ormond, oh oh, J. P. Hunstle Schwenk, ih ih, J. C. Hunsale
...Cantor, who never got beyond the seventh grade himself, had lined up four famed U. S. college presidents. University of Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins, Stanford's Ray Lyman Wilbur, Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken, College of the City of New York's Frederick Bertrand Robinson...
...original piece. I thought you just were to send in the best essay you could find. If I had known, I would have written one myself." Dismayed, Eddie Cantor gulped : "An honest mistake. . . . But of course he doesn't get the scholarship." Lamented Judge Frederick Bertrand Robinson: "Eddie was doing a fine thing. . " . Most unfortunate...