Word: siding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pattie rolled the words to sound like "foo-aya-racka-sacki." Arranger Vic Shoen changed the tempo and melody of the song much differently. Pattie suggested "don't get icky with the 1-2-3" for the verse. Kent created "life is just so fine on the solid side of the line." Pattie, Kent, Shoen and myself worked out the lines "I like my tasty butterfish, when I come home from work at night, I get my favorite dish-fish!" The "fish" break, worked out by Shoen, is one of the most important punches to the song...
...Republican, caused Majority Leader Sam Rayburn deep pain with the following "unfortunate" remarks about Franklin Roosevelt's reception for President Somoza of Nicaragua (see p. 15): "Heading the parade was a White House limousine bearing that great democrat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the stern dictator from Nicaragua, sitting side by side carrying on an amiable conversation. . . . Overhead droned hundreds of aircraft, burning the taxpayers' money...
...State-supported German Evangelical Church issued a new declaration of principles: "Every supranational or international churchdom of Roman Catholic or world-Protestant stamp is a political debasement of Christianity. . . . The Christian faith is the unbridgeable religious opposition to Jewry. . . . [National Socialism's fight] is on the philosopho-political side the continuance and completion of the work which the German reformer Martin Luther began...
...facial neuralgia, but to relieve pain physicians some times inject alcohol into the tough, sinuous trigeminal (facial) nerve or sever its root. Neither of these treatments is satisfactory, however, for alcohol injections may give only transient relief, and a severed nerve may impart a slack, dead expression to one side of the face...
...Chicago's South Side 60 years ago Jacob Portis proved better at raising a family than at selling real estate: his eight boys had to sell newspapers. Milton Portis, the eldest (now 62), worked his way through medical school. The two youngest, Bernard and Sidney (now 42 and 45), were put through by their older brothers. Three others, Isadore, Arnold and Theodore, went to work for a hat firm and in 1914 they and the remaining two brothers, Lyon and Henry, set up Portis Brothers Hat Co. They had $23,000 to start with, half borrowed from Dr. Milton...