Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia's blonde, blue-eyed, Yankee-born Hilda Emery Davis, who in private life is the wife of Danceband-Leader Meyer Davis. Forty-two-year-old Mrs. Davis, having been a professional pianist at the age of 10, having mothered five children, and taken a fling at Tin Pan Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like...
...this year $28,971,000. What the U. S. buys most from abroad is raw materials, but U. S. commodity prices are now at a two-year low; hence imports of non-ferrous metals were down from $19,547,000 in March 1937 to $9,641,000 this year, tin from $11,617,000 to $3,808,000, newsprint from...
...those days students used to get water in pails from both pumps. They carried the water in pails up to their rooms where they bathed luxuriously in their tin bath tubs...
Bright-eyed Tunesmith Grever never expected her Spanish-style Ti-Pi-Tin to rival the Spanish-style waltz Ramona in popularity. She had long been known as a composer of some 450 Spanish ditties and more or less serious concert songs, had reached grandmotherhood without seeing any of them create a furor. But last week, as Ti-Pi-Tin reached its fourth consecutive week as Tin Pan Alley's top seller, Grandmother Grever began to challenge Tunesmith Wayne's record...
...Statistically, 90% Roman Catholic, with some 7,000,000 souls listed as belonging to the Church. Actually, anticlericalism has made its inroads in Austria. Last week Rev. James Mar tin Gillis, C.S.P., editor of the Catholic World, estimated the population as "50% or 40% good Catholic...