Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portland Junior Symphony Orchestra, of which I was second clarinetist and bass clarinetist for several seasons, presented Dark Dancers in concert Feb. 5, 1935, Mr. Cadman at the piano. The music was of course played from manuscript. On each sheet, the title was written on a slip of paper pasted over some previous heading, which, after steaming off the paper slips, turned out to be Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. Needless to say, those of us who were "in on the know" procured and devoured (somewhat secretively in a few cases I fear) copies of that book. Concert night...
...content with that. Henry Ford next led a group of reporters about his plant. He opined that the most prosperous era in U. S. history is just around the corner because industry is opening up a whole new field for agricultural byproducts. Picking up a curved sheet of a composition which he said was made from soybeans, the angular old man jumped enthusiastically up & down on it, exclaimed triumphantly: "If that was steel it would have caved in." Almost entire cars, said Henry Ford, will soon be made of such things as soybeans...
...doubled or to be halved. Having spent all my business life in close contact with authors, editors, literary agents, printers and printers' link, I told my guest that the universal practice in the literary shop is to measure MSS by the number of words and not by the sheet or page. I even proposed that he ask his instructors in this course to follow the common practice. He received my suggestion with manifest horror and told me he could not think of doing such a thing...
...away and with the time at hand when the heads of the various departments should be preparing questions, one might stop and wonder how an examination is created, and what is more to the student's interest, how it is corrected. Any haphazard method of organizing the little white sheet that is to test the interpretation of knowledge gained and assimilated over the period of four months is as much to be lamented as a similar method of estimating the worth of that interpretation. Although it is quite easy to ask and correct questions in mathematics and the sciences...
...Brunswick had released a Russ Morgan version, and at Manhattan's Paramount Theatre the crowd called for four encores the first time Morgan played it. Victor had Guy Lombardo's recording of the song ready this week in time to be put on sale with the sheet music. First day's sheet sale (7,000) indicated that Bei Mir Bist Du Schön might be as sensational as The Music Goes 'Round and Around...