Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believed that Bethlehem had surrendered, but it was a notable truce. And for the time at least, Knudsenhillman had averted what might have been a bloody and disastrous battle on the defense industry's most vital front. Thirty-nine hours after the strike began, steel was beginning to roll again in Lackawanna...
Lost Face. Japan was not long in getting reactions from this backdown. She had not only lost face diplomatically, but she had lost the military initiative. In Singapore thousands of Australian troops landed after a 3,000-mile trip. They sang Roll Out the Barrel, tossed pennies down on British dignitaries waiting to welcome them, cockily announced that they were "all set and fighting fit," then set out for northern Malaya. U. S.-made bombing planes reinforced the British Air Force at Singapore. New U. S. fighting planes were sent to the U. S. Fleet in Hawaii...
Conductor Malcolm H. Holmes '28, who directed the orchestra for nine years, has selected little known music for his concerts. Besides the Haydn Symphony No. 1 (the Drum Roll), the one well-known piece on the programs, the orchestra is rehearsing selections such as "Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb", written by Professor Edward E. Ballantine '07 and orchestrated by Robert U. Jameson '32, former Pierian president. A clever satire on the work of Schuber, Tschaikovsky, MacDowell, and Wagner, the work of the various composers is easily recognizable in the composition even by amateurs...
...rasp in his voice which is pleasant to hear after the corny Will Bradley novelties (COLUMBIA) . . . Speaking of boogie-woogie, COLUMBIA has just released an album of reissues. Offerings include the Harry James Trio (Albert Ammons, Harry James, Johnny Williams, Eddie Dougherty); Pete Johnson and Joe Turner on Roll 'Em Pete; and the two-sided Boogie-Woogie Prayer, featuring Johnson, Ammons, and Meade Lux Lewis. These records are vastly superior to the ones put out in the older Decca Album . . . Cootie Williams plays trumpet and sings on Benny Goodman's COLUMBIA recording of Let the Door Knob Hitoha. Cootie...
...Thomas (for a fashion description of opening night at the Metropolitan Opera), as 1940's best newshens. Because he delivered "two notable decisions freeing Negroes who had, under torture, confessed to crimes," the name of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, onetime Klansman, was placed on the Honor Roll of Race Relations for 1940. (So was Jack Benny's, because he gave his Negro co-comedian "Rochester" roles not humiliating to the Negro race.) Self-made, sloganeering Henry T. Ewald, president of Detroit's great Campbell-Ewald agency, got 1940"s gold medal for a distinguished career...