Word: streets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herr Hitler did not begin by talking peace. In fact for almost an hour of his 80-minute address-a loosely knit discussion with few of the great dramatic lifts that characterized the Führer's oratory before he began to discard his street-corner style in favor of what he considers the more statesmanlike fashion-he talked about almost everything except peace. Germans and colored folk like their sermons long and discursive, and, in spite of a disordered world's need for straight plain talk, that is the way the Germans are still getting them from...
...bumps and boredom fairly well. A. Hitler, an Austrian by birth who spent his youth in Vienna, cheered up the former Austrian capital by putting it back on a basis of bright lights and tuneful night life. The ban on dancing was lifted, Vienna cabarets sprang to life, the street lights were on and last week the Viennese, incorrigibly light-hearted and easygoing, even tore from their windowpanes the dark paper pasted on when the Führer ordered blackouts...
When up in New York's Harlem a short time ago, I wandered into a session at the Moonglow on 145th Street (highly recommended!) which had some of the best orchestra piano I had heard in a long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play...
...work of the Study will again this year center at 13 Holyoke Street, once the Big Tree Swimming Pool, which has been enlarged over the summer by the addition of three now offices. William L. Woods and Thomas H. Wright will continue the psychiatric work done last year by Donald W. Hastings, who has left for an important post at the University of Pennsylvania...
Only once that Don knows about has any child got a whiff of anything but sweetness from him. That was when he was recognized on the street by a tot, after he had had a cocktail. The eager child begged to be lifted up, and once up, kissed Uncle wetly. "I love you, Uncle...