Word: unbeknownst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Thing" was made under some unusual conditions. Late one night after a recording session at the Brunswick studio, some of the big-wigs in the studio asked the Count to play the "Miss" which he had just written a few days before in Boston. Count did, and unbeknownst to the band, the rendition was recorded on a 16-inch master in the control room. The result, released this week on two sides of a Vocalion record, is very loose and easy with a tricky last chorus--the best he has done lately . . . One of the Brunswick higher officials swears...
Suspecting that members of the Faculty and students are engaged in secret communist agitation, the Hearst Syndicate has assigned a reporter to the College to ferret, out any "red" activities which are taking place unbeknownst to the Administration. It is understood, however, that the reporter, James McEnary, a member of the Boston Evening American staff, failed in his attempt to secure an appointment with President Conant...
...busy life keeping house, entertaining, riding, hunting, fishing, acting as "judge, jury, doctor and family adviser" to the hundreds of Negroes on the place. Not until she was over 40 did she begin to write seriously; her first collection of sketches, Green Thursday, was done unbeknownst to her husband or son. Scarlet Sister Mary won her the Pulitzer Prize (1928), was afterwards dramatized for Ethel Barrymore...
With due respect to "Golden Harvest," a sailor comedy with Eugene Palette is the high light of the program. It seems that there has been a big lottery. Unbeknownst to himself a sailor with an anchor tatooed on his chest holds the winning ticket. A band of unscrupulous racketeers seeks to learn the identity of this child of fate and employ the services of a shapely blonde...
Three months ago all unbeknownst to themselves three little pigs turned song-pluggers. Their behavior was revolutionary so far as the song industry was concerned. Song-plugging had been left before to such shrewd and experienced performers as Rudy Vallée, Al Jolson, Helen Morgan. The three little pigs were neither shrewd nor experienced. They were pink and new-looking with pudgy behinds and ridiculous tails. Two were so imprudent that they built their houses of straws and sticks, fiddled and danced and tootled on the flute all day, mocking their serious pig-brother who built a brick house...