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...plot's not much and the girls aren't much, but the whole theatre swayed back and forth when Glenn Miller hit his stride on Chattanooga Choochoo and the Nicholas Brothers and Sister started clicking their heels on the back of a cardboard train panting for cottonland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Although this move meant a possible delay in the repeal of Section 6, and a probable knockdown, drag-out fight, it was also a stride toward honesty in facing the real issue: How much more is the U.S. going to do against Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arms & the Merchant Marine | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...adjoining field, Dudley finally hit its stride and had a field day running wild over Leverett, 26 to 0. The Bunnies, minus their left end and center, were hard-pressed and had little to offer in defense...

Author: By William J. Elser, | Title: Adams' Eleven Downs Deacons | 10/25/1941 | See Source »

Maybe this is not such a bad idea. Why not offer "Wally" to Hitler? This might please many of the English and might also throw Hitler off his stride. Since this is a period of "all-out" war, the personal feelings of the Duke might have to be passed over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 20, 1941 | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born pianist and greatest living composer of light opera, is of an age which the swift and relentless stride of time has left alive only in memories. His name was greatest when whispered by ladies in ruffled hoop-skirts to frock-coated gentlemen seated next to them in their box-seats. Like those of his fellow-spirit, Victor Herbert, his opera stories are now watery wine to a world once intoxicated by the theme of gay, romantic love bursting Victorian bonds. But despite all of this and much more which could be added from the pens...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: "The Student Prince" | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

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