Word: skidoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between the time he left New York University (where in 1906 he wrote an undergraduate musicomedy called the Isle of Skidoo) and when he went to the World, Deems Taylor tried a dozen jobs. He read proof for the Nelson Encyclopedia, rose to write it articles on handball and pins, drew colored plates of U. S. flags. He went into the commercial art business, finished up a year with a net loss of $17. Then he edited an electrical magazine, went to France on $700 as a self-appointed War correspondent. He got his job on the World through...