Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platters are quite a few of the "Sister Kate" vintage of Muggsy's, "Blue Heaven" and "Jam" All Star sides of the "Bean," and some B.G. and "Fats" material. While a few numbers appear on Victor labels, the majority are Bluebird. This ought to be quite a relief to sore pocketbooks that have been shelling out plenty for the innumerable small company releases. A complete list of the above sides is available at Briggs and it sure is a sight for sore eyes to see prospects of getting those records which everyone has looked for so long...
...less trouble than most mothers. Tom was a boy who did household chores because he knew it was his duty; cheerfully practiced his two hours on the piano every Saturday even though the kids outside were yelling for him to play ball; marched off to school with a sore throat because he did not want to mar his spotless attendance record. Said Mrs. Dewey: "I never thought about him being President. I just hoped he would be a good...
...impossible to state in precise terms how uncomfortable the situation was. It was true that mobilization had rubbed the nation's race problem raw. Pinko agitators, self-styled liberals and other citizens of good will had plucked at the sore. The thin-skinned and irritable Negro press, which has seldom missed a report of injustice to Negro troops and has played it for all it would stand, continued to print most of the sensational and baseless yarns which flew around, from standard soldiers' gripes on up. The truth lay somewhere between such red-eyed denunciation and the bland...
...made money in church choirs and explored torts at Columbia, Frances Hutt spent two years on the stage, including a spell as a singer in George White's Scandals. By 1928 Thomas Dewey had made two decisions. Forced to sing at an important concert when he had a sore throat, he decided once & for all that he could not let his future depend on such a fragile thing as his vocal chords. And he married Frances Hutt, who immediately retired from the stage, in time became the mother of Thomas Edmund Jr. (now 11) and John Martin Dewey...
...gram of sulfadiazine a day last year protected a quarter of a million Navy men for months from a dangerous streptococcus infection which was going the rounds of the Navy, causing sore throats, scarlet fever, even meningitis. Only about one man in 1,000 had a bad reaction...