Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North China, Roy Chapman Andrews ate locusts cooked in sugar, found them "good, crisp and sweet...
...rather weary of sweet flowahs and twittering buhds; of labuh and neighbuh, wukuhs and fahmuhs, wah and so on; of promises blandly honored in the breach; of lip service to the Constitution; of "liberalism" that purges, stands for Hagues and the Chicago Kellys and for political use of National relief; that cunningly labors to undermine American enterprise while deftly advancing the system of socialism...
...like Jerome Kern and Sigmund Romberg played the piano. Old (78) Carrie Jacobs Bond accompanied a singer in her End of a Perfect Day, and launched her latest effort, The Flying Flag. Old W. C. Handy played his St. Louis Blues on the cornet. Tunes like Star Dust, Smiles, Sweet Adeline, Kiss Me Again on a program which five times mentioned ASCAP's full name, suggested what radio would be like without them...
Last week imaginative newsmen wrote that the Army was looking for squads of sweet young things to gladden the new soldier boys. Colonel Pfeil & associates pish-tushed these reports, harrumphed that Army hostesses will be just as impregnable as ever. How many Colonel Pfeil needs will be determined when he knows how many new huts (each one generally has three hostesses) he has to build for incoming Guardsmen, conscripts and one-year volunteers...
...sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into the bloodcurdling tritone, it sounds that way to Londoners...