Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune lilted all last week through the heads of the 500-odd members of the U, S. Congress: Home, Sweet Home. Senator LaFollette, who had spent the previous weekend yachting with the President, broadcast to the press his view that Congress should stay in session until a ''comprehensive legislative schedule" had been enacted. He said that he spoke only for himself, which in one sense was true since he is the only member of the Progressive Party in the Senate, but Senator Barkley, the new majority leader, who had also been on the yachting party was promptly quizzed...
...Youngstown Sheet & Tube-had not heard the last of S. W. O. C. From now on the strike will become a campaign of attrition-to harass the companies at every step with the hope of raising the cost of making steel to a point where any settlement would seem sweet...
...when he wrote his first musicomedy, La La Lucille. The same year he brought out his first hit song Swanee which sold 2,250,000 Victrola records. From 1920 to 1924 he wrote the music for George White's Scandals. The Astaires danced to his Our Nell, Sweet Little Devil, Lady Be Good! From hit shows like Stop Flirting, Primrose, Rainbow, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy, Gershwin became a rich man, filled his penthouse with expensive furniture, African sculpture, a Mustel pipe organ, a fine collection of French moderns. George Gershwin had time...
Rhode Island's straw hat drama will be partially provided by the Theatre-by-the-Sea at Matunuck and the Casino Theatre at Newport, where Eric Swift's new play Sweet Sorrow will be on the boards next fortnight...
...central panel, fairly near the centre," said Artist Bouché, "are three deer and they are just grazing and standing around. I just painted them because they are so sweet." The right and left panels, which must stand alone since the central section will often be covered by a cinema screen, show an Indian and a surveyor gazing at the landscape and cowboys rounding up buffalo...