Word: sweetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baby-faced Johnny Oros, as bashful and unsophisticated as Don Meade is arrogant and wise, rebelled at his first interview. "Aw shucks," said he. "There ain't any mystery about me or my riding. I don't use no special tricks. I don't whisper no sweet words in the horse's ear. I just sit up there and hang...
Shortly after he joined Loft, Mr. Guth bought control of Pepsi-Cola Co., manufacturers of a dark, sweet soft drink which was then just another of the 1,000-odd aspirants to Coca-Cola's crown. By energetic promotion, including putting Pepsi-Cola instead of Coca-Cola in the fountains of Loft's 200 stores, Pepsi-Cola was fizzed up to the point where it became a respectable competitor of Coca-Cola...
...mighty" lift to Loft, the decision not only handed it Pepsi-Cola but ordered Mr. Guth to turn over back dividends of some $475,000. Mr. Guth was reported interested in a new dark, sweet soft drink. Name: Noxie-Kola...
Summoned to a Bronx, N. Y. traffic court for illegal parking, Henry Worthington Armstrong,* who in 1903 composed the music for Sweet Adeline (original title: Sweet Rosalie), was asked by Magistrate Richard McKiniry to sing the ballad's seldom-heard verse (what every crooner knows is merely the chorus). Composer Armstrong cleared his throat, sang, "In the evening when I sit alone a-dreaming . . ." was shortly interrupted by the critical magistrate: "I ought to fine you for your singing, but I won't. Sentence suspended...
...check for $3.60, seized a broom and went out to sweep the streets six hours a day, six days a week, explaining: "I think this is a wonderful country. I decide I will be an honest man with this country. ... So I start to sweep. . . . My bread it tastes sweet and I feel like a man because I work...