Word: spic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half the time kidding rah rah stuff, during the other half Rodgers & Hart rove as far from the campus as they please. In Spic & Spanish, dark, Puerto Rican St. Vitus Dancer Diosa Costello does everything but break a leg. In I Didn't Know What Time It Was, charming Marcy Wescott tremulously chalks one up for love. In Give It Back to the Indians, Rodgers & Hart sell short the Manhattan they raised a glass to in the Garrick Gaieties. In I Like to Recognize the Tune* Rodgers & Hart-who hate swing-give "hot" bands an earful...
...takes care of British officers stepped Sister Agnes Keyser, close friend of Britain's George & Mary who carries her own key to the royal gardens. At the hospital's gate, astonished Sister Agnes found not the travel-worn automobile in which she always rode, but a spic & span new one. She learned that His Majesty, motoring past the hospital, had noticed her old car, ordered for her a Daimler like his own, in the royal colors of maroon and scarlet...
...York City Col. Jacob Ruppert, whose Third Avenue plant has been kept spic & span through twelve Dry years, was "ready to produce the real stuff on a moment's notice." Other metropolitan breweries?Doelger, Lion, Schaefer, Loewer, Trommer, Piel?began overhauling their plants. Fidelio Brewery advertised its stock for sale with the observation: "Modification of the Volstead Act now seems assured." Conservative Wall Street brokers warned customers that good brewery stock was closely held, that the new issues were highly speculative. At the U. S. Brewers' Academy 22 grown men were attending classes of a technical course which would qualify...
Last week, with the Black Horse Troop in solemn attendance and a group of First Citizens as special guests, the Chicago Historical Society opened to the public its spic & span new $1,000,000 Colonial edifice in Lincoln Park...
Like any other innovation designed to bring about an improvement in the existing social order, the establishment of the House Plan at Harvard may be relied upon to carry in its wake something more than a group of spic and span Georgian dormitories. Whether Harvard men like it or not, the new buildings by the Charles are symbols of change and of a new chapter in the history of the College. With the opening of the first two units next fall it will be possible to determine with some degree of accuracy the direction in which the wind is blowing...