Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of them are handled most economically when handled in conjunction with other functions occurring almost simultaneously. Most of them are carried out most efficiently with the aid of the University business office. About all the Committee actually bothers itself with is the question of whether to hire a sweet or swing band for the Class Spread...
...peculiar memorial to the late George Gershwin appeared last week in the form of a record made in England by Columbia. Gershwin-King of Rhythm is distinguished by sweet & low singing of The Man I Love by Hildegarde, tremolo rendering of a Gershwin tune on the harmonica by Larry Adler, and the cultivated, funereal tones of an English master of ceremonies paying tribute to the composer in odd counterpoint to the smooth, Hebrew melodies of the Jazz King. While this curio was being put on sale in Manhattan phonograph shops, one of the least sentimental and most interesting events...
...grooms shook up the stalls. On Sundays he read funny papers to an old Negro jockey named Tom Connors, wrote letters for him to his girls. It was several years before young Townsend learned why the old Negro used to line his room with newspapers and smoke a sweet-smelling pipe before he rode a race. Tom was a hophead...
...conveniently spaced settings for the Drinking Song from La Traviata, the duet from Madame Butterfly, the finale to the third act of Martha, the Gavotte from Manon and the Old Red Rooster arietta from She'll Be Comin' 'round the Mountain. The title song is a sweet-and-dreamy for the radio groundlings...
What, in the name of dear, sweet --- is the New Lecture Hall coming to? For ---'s sake, it was a clean, well-lighted, masculine place in my day. My day was 1928-33. Please, dear Crimson, do something. Most sincerely, George Frazier...