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...Lewis' music per se. His band has at times had first-class hot-jazz players (Muggsy Spanier, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, George Brunies*). But usually the musicians are purely a supporting cast to Lewis himself. He is a one-man synthesis of U.S. show business at its showiest. Under full steam, Ted Lewis embodies the Shakespearean ham, the minstrel strutter, the carnival drum major, the medicine barker, the vaudeville tearjerker, the circus buffoon, the ragtime sport-all among the most fondly regarded figures in U.S. life...
...dynamic personnel manager of Marseille's largest and showiest dry goods store, Les Nouvelles Galeries, bearded M. Frichet recently succeeded in persuading the owners to protect the lives of clerks and customers in their gaudy firetrap by ordering a modern sprinkler system. The gossiping Marseille plumbers and their helpers were maddeningly slow; but by last week they had put in all the pipes and sprinkler heads, promised by this week to get the system connected to the water mains...
Dear to venerable generals destined to die in bed are the largest and showiest Zeiss field telescopes. Squinting through his on Ethiopia's Northern front last week, goat-bearded Italian Commander Emilio de Bono was trying to see what the Dictator's war machine was doing 40 miles away. In the foreground Old de Bono could see distinctly part of a grimy Italian labor battalion slaving to make roads, a spate of lumbering trucks and tanks, many a picturesque sight full of local Ethiopian color...
Professor Woodruffs showiest figure is the number of ways in which a pack of 52 cards may be arranged...
Apple-Cheeked Gwilym. Since all is fair in love and politics, Conservatives baited their hook to catch workpeople's votes by popping into one of the Party's showiest offices an apple-cheeked ex-coal-miner, one Gwilym Rowlands, an oldster as pink and enticing as an angler's worm...