Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remove the oath law from the books will not come up again until 1941. Informed circles at the State House said that had the Governor been pressed for a statement on Thursday the measure might have gone through, but that it had little chance of passage after today's roll call...
...campaign to swing three or four votes before the measure is brought up again on the floor. In Thursday's balloting only 12 Representatives were not present, but the Massachusetts Civic League, leaders of outside pressure for repeal were confident that they would turn the tide in today's roll call...
...automobile, a Ford sedan, suddenly swung from the curb, where it was parked at 9:00 o'clock yesterday morning, forcing three cars to swerve aside to avoid a crash. The runway vehicle then proceeded to roll down Quincy Street and smashed into a four-foot post on the opposite side of the street...
...chiefly for keeping George Raft off the screen and putting Maxine Sullivan's swing rendition of Loch Lomond on it. Raft declined the leading role, that of a Mississippi showboat impresario, because he felt it did not do his talents justice. Paramount promptly suspended him from its pay roll. Miss Sullivan, 4-ft. n-in., gi-lb. Negro soprano, who in 1937 started a craze for gently swung folk tunes, made her Hollywood debut in Going Places last month. In St. Louis Blues, in addition to an excellent rendition of Loch Lomond, she touches a high in good taste...
...chemist, but piano-pounding in a Harrisburg hotel offered better money. From then on he stuck to music, studied under Organist Charles Maskill and Pianist Rafael Joseffy, applied this talent to writing vaudeville songs, editing for a Philadelphia music publisher, and running his own player piano roll company. He used to pound rolls out by the yard, under some 20 different names-Preston Dupre for the classics, Cyril Crossing for tangos, other Frenchy names for "saluts d'amour," etc. In 1916 he came to Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, arranged and directed musicals for Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Ziegfelu...