Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brother True Knowledge still hoped to work on the waterfront, but he was learning how to be a carpenter-just in case. He was also deriving comfort from Loving Jeremiah, a four-year-old Negro boy he had adopted three years ago. Sang Loving Jeremiah: "I want to be rolled up, I want to be wrapped up, I want to be tied up in his will, and let the rest of the world roll...
Sidney Bechet, who is 49 but looks older, has delivered the same two-beat jazz over half the U.S., in London, Paris, Berlin and Moscow. With his pals, including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Zutty Singleton, he has played it on nearly 100 records. Experts have named him on their all-star bands. But he hasn't made a fortune...
...summer to earn his way through Simmons College (now Hardin-Simmons University). He played basketball, and ran so many campus organizations that he picked up another nickname, "Ma." Prankish, he liked to set all the alarm clocks in the student dormitory in which he lived for 4 a.m., roll 16-lb. shots down the halls and stairs in the dead of night. The college yearbook, which Gene edited, said of him: "Quiet and un assuming but a living example of influence...
...Hope and Dorothy Lamour by this time have either established themselves as one of Hollywood's top comedy teams, either with or without the extra added attraction of a horse-fancier known as Harry Lillis Crosby. The last name doesn't appear on the roll of the "My Favorite Brunette" east, but the other two-thirds of the trio manage to hold up their end to good enough advantage. From the title you might well assume before the film even begins that it's going to be something on the same order as an opus called "My Favorite Blonde" that...
...some honest historical conflict, and a bit of honest unhappiness, in this movie. Spencer Tracy too often gazes stonily at God's sea of grass to show that he is both rugged individualist and nature mystic, but he plays with considerable force and style. As the decades roll by, Melvyn Douglas looks as wretched as the most vindictive moralist could decently expect. Miss Hepburn looks tense too, but arouses interest chiefly through her beautiful turn-of-the-century costumes...