Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispensed Scotch, but this ran out quickly, leaving Martinis, slivowitz (plum brandy) and orange juice. The flow of these potions, however, was reduced to a mere dribble: the amateur bartenders ran out of glasses. The guests wheeled hungrily toward the buffet. There was no trace of the usual turkeys, Virginia hams, salmon and pâtés which capital partygoers consider their legitimate reward-only fresh-cheeked girls circulating with trays of snippets of homemade sandwiches and tiny pastries...
...attention, as if he were delighting in the many facets of policy and power suddenly available to him. He teased Jim Farley about an NRA stamp showing a stringy girl with big feet ("If recovery is dependent on women like that I am agin recovery"), exchanged notes with Virginia's Carter Glass on U.S. fiscal policy, rather fatuously wrote (in 1933) to U.S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long in Rome that he was "deeply impressed" by Mussolini's intention "to prevent general European trouble," and, with a cheerful egalitarian touch, recommended Ambassador Robert Bingham to Britain's King George...
Miss Rich will give a reading of her own works at 7:30 p.m. next Tuesday in Cabot Hall, among which will be poems which have appeared in the "Virginia Quarterly Review" and "Harper...
...gave the beat for Don't Be That Way. From then on, as Benny himself remembers it, "they were shrieking. They wanted to tear the place down." For three solid hours it went on, through One O'Clock Jump, Dixieland One-Step, I'm Comin' Virginia, Shine, Big John's Special. A roar went up after Trumpeter Harry James's first solo. There were screams after Benny's first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy's five choruses in Sing, Sing, Sing. For the last half-hour, Drummer Gene Krupa, openmouthed...
...lead to the door. For its best moments, The West Point Story depends on talented Dancer Gene Nelson and the pleasant voices of Gordon MacRae and Doris Day in some tuneful Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn songs. As Cagney's girl friend, who all but joins the corps herself, Virginia Mayo fills her tights admirably...