Word: trickyness
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"Wonder Bar"--Columbia recording. From the movie of the same name. Emil Coleman's orchestra gives the tune the proper sentimental treatment; it is much better than the Victor recording with Freddy Martin's orchestra which depends entirely on the too tricky booming bass effects. The backing is merely filler...
The attitude of Nemo isn't fair. I do not question, and I doubt if Lindbergh would question, the fact that the crass vulgarities of Nemo and his type are true reflections of character. Even if addled adolescents were not so noisily boastful about their Scollay Square standards, the same...
As tricky as "blocked marks" is a new transfer wrinkle which holders of numerous German corporate and municipal external bonds had to worry about last week. They were offered interest payment half in cash, half in scrip cashable at 50% of its face value, will thus receive 75% of the...
First Game. Betting odds for the series were 10-to-7 against the Giants, but odds for the opening game shifted to 4-to-3 pro-Giant when the bookies learned that lanky Carl Hubbell would pitch. Hubbell's tricky "screwball" was considered the Giants' prime defense against...
Gentleman who has just spent three weeks in Boston comes into our office with a couple of items he insists are not apocryphal. He says Boston remains firmly the same. Cars are still "stood" there, not parked, for instance. He tramped for half an hour around Cambridge trying to find...