Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before. One day an office patient asked the doctor what he owed. Instead of answering "$3," the doctor looked in his neat files (straightened by Boggs), saw that the man's overdue bill was $65 and said, "Well, altogether you owe me $68." The patient took out a roll of bills and paid in full-a great day for Boggs. That year the doctor's business brought...
With good purses ($200 to $5,000) Wonderland attracts the fastest U.S. racing dogs. Fastest is Never Roll, a four-year-old owned by H. B. Diamond of St. Petersburg, Fla. Last summer at Wonderland, Never Roll won 17 of 24 races, broke four world's records at distances from 330 to 770 yards. Boston's dog fans expect even greater things of Never Roll this year. A few weeks ago, during a schooling race, he ran 100 yards in 5.275 seconds. World's record...
...York's Famous Door and Cotton Club to Chicago's Grand Terrace, Kansas City's Lone Star and Los Angeles' Paramount theater. And while the band backed up Mary Lou, she backed up the band. She wrote most of its arrangements, and many of them (Roll 'em, Froggy Bottom, etc.) are classics among jazz players. One week she got down 15 scores and, all told, she provided the Clouds of Joy with 200. With them she has made dozens of Decca records...
...band at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Says Al: "Bing had a swell set of trap drums with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset painted on the big drum and lit from the inside. . . . He still can't read music and wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues singer, Mildred Bailey...
...rich Eagles, like the rich Red Sox, have discovered that it takes more than a bank roll to win a pennant. The club that dominates Negro baseball is not Effa's Eagles but the Homestead (Pa.) Grays, originally founded for the diversion of Carnegie Steel employes and now owned by two Homestead Negroes: Cum (for Cumberland) Posey, a member of the Board of Education, and Sonnyman (for Rufus) Jackson, a juke-box impresario. So far this season, the Grays have won 18 league games, lost only four...