Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington and Benjamin David ("Benny"') Goodman are the ablest U. S. jazz band leaders now shaking a stick. Both are hard-working and musicianly; both are money-making veterans. Last week the Duke and Benny both made off-beat appearances...
...Cigaret paper is hard to make. It must be thinner than a human hair, strong enough to fold without tearing, tasteless. It must not stick to the lips nor burn faster or slower than tobacco. Before the war the U. S. bought its yearly supply (some $4,000,000 worth) from France, which made the paper from old linen gathered by the ragpickers of Poland, Russia and the Balkans...
Died. Eddie Guerin, 80, Irish-born international crook, bank robber and purse-snatcher; in poverty, at Bury, Lancashire, England. Celebrated for his criminal exploits in collaboration with the legendary "Chicago May" Churchill, who helped him stick up the American Express office in Paris, Guerin made a sensational escape from Devil's Island in 1905, only to find, when he reached London, that "Chicago May" had deserted him for a new lover...
Today I'm going to stick my neck out and write about House dances, and a lot of people are going to disagree with me, and they'll be just as right...
...selfish. Let us create our selfish policy, and stick to it stubbornly. Only so and in no other way can we case turmoil and trouble here at home. Thomas Lacey...