Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mirror Winchell became increasingly staccato, informative and readable. He developed the Monday column (sub-headed "This Town of Ours," later "Man About Town") which made a specialty of entertaining and impudent eavesdropping ("Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poem writer, just bought a new set of store teeth"). He invented "welded," "sealed" and "middle aisled" to mean married, "renovated," "wilted" and "have phffft" for parted or divorced. And a glimmering interest in politics was evidenced in this item printed in September 1932: " 'Sonny' Whitney has dropped the name of Vanderbilt because 'it is incongruous' . . . Sonny also...
Four years ago John Vincent Lawless Hogan, a plump, soft-spoken radio engineer, got a license to operate a small experimental television station in Long Island City. To accompany his experimental television broadcasts Engineer Hogan used phonograph records. Because he could not think as well to jazz, Engineer Hogan used symphonic records. Not many people were equipped to receive his television broadcasts, but many radio listeners tuned in on his symphonic accompaniments...
Last winter it was discovered that Vincent Lopez, pudgy, decorous danceband leader, had been brooding long and heavily over the unsingableness of The Star-Spangled Banner. Suggested by Bandleader Lopez was a new version of his own, with its high notes pruned to fit the limitations of the average voice (TIME, Feb. 7). Bandleader Lopez' version, duly performed in Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, caused very mild applause. But last week, as Congress was hurrying toward adjournment, publicity-loving Congressman Emanuel Celler (N. Y.) urged official acceptance of Lopez' "squeakless" anthem. Said Congressman Celler: "Why not enable everybody...
...Acquitania are Vincent R. Bailey '40, stroke; Howard M. Turner, Jr., '40, 7; Samuel M. Pierce '40, 6; Richard Fay '40, 5; George von L. Meyer, Jr., '38, 4; George C. Cutler, Jr., '40, 3; John S. Stillman '40, 2; John G. Gilkey, Jr., '39 bow; Nathan M. Plaut '39, cox. Robert Homans '40 and John H. Ijams will go along as substitutes...
...Pittsburgh 17 years ago, a devout, 20-year-old Roman Catholic named Raymond Heintz had a vocation for the priesthood. He earned his way through high school, Duquesne University, St. Vincent's Seminary by driving a taxicab. Last week, wearing clericals as seminarians do, Raymond Heintz turned in his last trip card to the cab company. Next week he is to be ordained. Pittsburgh taximen, 500 of whom planned to attend Father Heintz's first Mass, got up a fund, presented him with a fine gold chalice...