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Word: soon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Always cautious, Jaakko would give no indication of his hopes for a repetition of last year's undefeated season. "They are all doing fairly well" he reiterated. "Soon they will be in good form...

Author: By Paul I. Carp, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

Back home in Manhattan, Sergeant Smith was soon in the big time, playing at Reisenweher's (as did the famed Original Dixieland Jazz Band), accompanying the great Mamie Smith on Okeh records, traveling the Keith Circuit with a band. Prohibition led him prosperously underground, and lovers of hot music flocked to hear him at Harlem's Pod's and Jerry's saloon as eagerly as early Christians to their interdicted devotions. So eminent a white jazz player as Saxophonist Bud Freeman has since declared him to be the best groove pianist a band could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Lion | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything but itself, good-by to culture." Soon the tempest in a Tarnhelm reached the august portals of British Broadcasting Corp., where wax-mustached Conductor Sir Adrian Boult solemnly clucked: "The BBC contemplates no ban on any musical work by reason of its composer's nationality. BBC's concern is to provide good musical programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Battle of Hastings | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...David braves old Sir Thomas Danby, his father's father, who has had no notion of his existence. The bastard's ordeal turns into an idyll. He finds himself on the Riviera, with an allowance of a thousand pounds a year, chaperoned by a worldly-wise epigrammatist, soon in bed with an authentic beauty named Diana, to whom he writes verses. War talk is just a bore at first. But that autumn is the autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Full Circle | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

When questioned as to his future plans, Roosevelt said, "I plan to go back soon again to China...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quentin Roosevelt Back From China | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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