Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short and Sweet...
...survey of the National Housing situation. The President's chief aim: easier credit for home purchasers. ¶To the White House with many another oldster learning to read and write went M. S. Gains, 72, of Apison, Tenn. He presented President Hoover with a basket of sweet potatoes, declared afterwards: "And I whispered to him that come frosty weather, I'd send him a 'possum to go with 'em. And that pleased him. He was tickled. He laughed." ¶President Hoover dotted his last "i's," crossed in his last "t's" in speeches...
...spectacle of "America's Sweet-heart" cavorting at the head of the Harvard band in every movie theatre and Fair Harvard crooned and moaned to the accompaniment of the saxophone's bleat in every radio is truly overpowering; one cannot help but feel a slight giddiness at such a prospect, and perhaps under the circumstances the less said about the inefficiency of the publicity department the better...
...somehow becomes tawdry, tasteless, stagey. The booming Viennese melodies and waltzes that Rudolf Friml has provided for Luana may seem less incongruous, more tuneful when heard removed from the setting of papier-mache palm trees, skirts of all grasses and emaciated, brown-powdered chorus boys. Robert Chisholm (Golden Dawn, Sweet Adeline}, as a drunken beachcomber, does some powerful chanting with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein, a luscious-looking lady who sings well but whose speaking voice is throaty to the point of unintelligibility, is fairly satisfactory as the ill-starred princess. The vaudeville...
Colonial: "Sweet Adeline". Helen Morgan et al in a not unusual musical production...