Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of July 2 on p. 25, you have unintentionally confused the internationally known evangelist "Gypsy" Smith who, as you say, "for 50 years has preached and sung God all over the world," with a much younger man, Captain "Gypsy Pat" Smith, who was divorced by his wife in Bridgeport, Conn. This younger man of Gypsy origin after the War became an itinerant preacher, and, to the regret of "Gypsy" Smith, took that word as part of his public name. There is no kinship whatever between the two men. It is bad enough that his unhappy marital affairs should...
...pennant. This winter, people could not understand why Manager McGraw traded him to Boston. In Boston this spring he succeeded Manager Slattery, did what he could with that slovenly club, but has not succeeded in getting it out of seventh place in the National League. "Too bad," say fans. "Hornsby is over the fence and out. He's a tail-ender, a flop. He had best retire; he'll never get anywhere now. . . . Too bad." Boston may be "over the fence," but Hornsby is still making $40,600 a year and batting close...
...Say When. Long ago it became obvious that the Mayor of New York City, James John Walker, was one of the required ingredients of any Manhattan musical show. Usually, as impersonated by one of his many imitators, the Mayor would appear in the last act, a deus ex machina, to solve the transitory problems of the plot. When he attended the show there would be a bridling invitation from the management and the dignitary would clamber readily from his seat in the front row to be himself upon the stage. The producers of Say When had more ambitious plans...
...question for which there are many answers. Lee Simonson, able editor of Creative Art, suggested one last week. He wrote: "The modernity of the painter today reveals itself just as much in what he paints as the way he paints it. That change can be summarized by saying, that formerly the subject of a picture was a text whereas today it has become a pretext "The reason that sustained support of modern art is so difficult to maintain, is that even our most indubitably gifted moderns have so little passionate conviction about the things that they want to paint...
...Spaeth has collected a notable array of heterogeneous minstrel favorites? ribald, comic, sentimental, naïve. Some of these songs, and many old chestnuts, have been ordered into a very playable "working model" which will undoubtedly be used as a basis for many an amateur theatrical?to say nothing of radio boys' programs...