Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Besides the pigskin, my other interests are: swimming in the summer, tobogganing in the winter, and dancing all the year round to anybody's music, although my weakness is Calloway. Want to be in on a secret? Yes?--'I'd give my best pal away for Calloway.' (Yeah, man!!). His music does something to me. I hear that 'swing' is going out of style. Darn it! (oops, pardon my French). What are your views on music and orchestras...
Widener's new call cards with their mystifying holes and clipped corners are a part of the system installed during the summer to speed up the library's method of keeping record of borrowed books...
Back to the U. S. the Swedish liner Kungsholm brought Greta Louvisa Gustafsson, alias Garbo. More approachable than usual, after her summer in Europe with Leopold Stokowski, she chatted brightly with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that...
...rattlesnakes and riches, democracy, oil, ice water, le wild West and le jazz hot. With the hope of broadening that conception, and with the blessing of the French foreign ministry which io all for Franco-American good will, two cheerful French radiomen showed up in the U. S. last summer. They were Jacques F. Friedland, 41, president of a French radio production agency, Agence Radiophonique Universelle, and Didier van Ackere, 29, Paris correspondent of Columbia Broadcasting System. They came to make 30 half-hour recordings of U. S. sounds, songs, scenes. These recordings they planned to take back for broadcast...
This year, as usual, the tarnished Nickel Plate cannot make the grade. In first seven months it lost $2,003,779, contrasted with its $1,510,936 seven-month profit last year. Hence, last summer it asked the noteholders to wait until 1941, added that it would need almost a 100% affirmative reply for this third extension...