Word: sweetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not. . . ." Twenty-four hours before Iowa's ex-Governor Kraschel left the White House avowing that his State's people "would never be satisfied with a Presidential candidate except Mr. Roosevelt or someone in harmony with his views," Colorado's ex-Governor Sweet declared his conviction that Mr. Roosevelt could be renominated, despite opposition by conservatives like his State's Senator Alva Adams...
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh...
Last Sunday St. George's honored its most distinguished chorister with a special service of Negro spirituals. Headliner on the program was Harry Burleigh himself. Most of the spirituals were his own arrangements, including such famed items as Deep River, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, Go Down, Moses (in all, he has written some 150). St. George's was jammed. Outside, in tree-shaded Stuyvesant Square, big crowds listened in the warm spring sunshine as the voice of Harry Burleigh and St. George's choir rolled deeply from loudspeakers...
...everybody was musically disappointed. James, while having smoothed his style somewhat since last hearing, still plays very stiffly himself and his rhythm section sounds as if it were descended from the proud line of Pinocchio. On slow tunes, things were much better, the band displaying an indifferent Goodman style sweet. However, on the so-called "killer-diller" stuff, not even the rankest jitterbug could find much satisfaction with Mr. James playing such tricks as using the beginning of "Bach Goes To Town" and most of the famous Berigan chorus from the Benny Goodman record on "King Porter Stomp" . . . Rumor...
...York Fund-community chest for 380 Catholic, Protestant, Jewish health and welfare bodies-held a dinner to rally workers. Its 1939 campaign goal: $10,000,000. Speech of the evening was made by that most coherent of speechmaking bankers, Thomas William Lament. Banker Lament did not speak of sweet charity alone. On his mind was something currently bothering many a man of good will. Said...