Word: sweeter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Chase has mastered almost too well the English fiction on which she lectures. She writes in the great genteel evasive tradition, clean as Jane Austen and rather sweeter. Windswept is a treasury of sound thoughts and syntax whose spiritual dimension is revealed in such passages as this...
Sadder but sweeter, Artie Shaw last week soft-talked the jitterbugs, dispensed autographs like grace notes. What he wants most is $25,000 to start his dream band, and the jitterbugs bring him a gross of $2,000 to $2,500 a night, five nights a week. Nevertheless Leader Shaw last week canceled 32 such golden dates in the South and Southwest, where he has never played. Reason: he was asked to shelve Negro Paige during that part of his tour. The South can take all-Negro bands like Cab Galloway's, and it doesn't mind small...
When the girls got the good news last week that his will had been filed, they gurgled: "Kind and generous man . . ." ". . . couldn't have been kinder or sweeter. . . ." But there was no million. The estate had shrunk...
...Cooper, 61, of A.P. to publish and broadcast the Cooper-dooper Dixie Girl. Mr. Cooper "wrote the lyric and music in 1923 and the rhythm is of that time." So is the lyric: Never knew such wonderful days, Glorious days, it seems. All because her wonderful ways Make life sweeter than dreams. Chorus: 'Way down in Dixie, In sunny Dixie, Some one's waitin'. Soon I'll be datin' My darlin' Dixie girl...
...musician, Mr. Bennett has a dual personality. As Russell Bennett, he is a Tin Pan Alleyman who smartly arranges Broadway and Hollywood musicomedy scores, turning out 80 pages of orchestration in a day. In Broadway's louder and sweeter days, there were as many as 22 Bennett shows playing in one season.While keeping the tin pan boiling, Bennett has written-under the name of Robert Russell Bennett-an Abraham Lincoln Symphony, an opera, Maria Malibran, the fountain-&-fireworks music of the late New York World's Fair, many another serious piece. Now he can play the like...