Word: wagoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history the Brittons could not afford to winter in Manhattan. "Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Britton and daughter Ellen, will spend this winter in their house on Riggs Island." Schoolma'am Ada Whitehouse had set her unmodish cap at young Warren Chubb but Chubb was trying to hitch his wagon to Rae Britton. So, although Ellen Britton deserved the prize, that was why "Florence Widgell won the Sixth Grade Oratorical Contest in our School House Tuesday. A sterling silver medal was presented. Good work, Florence...
...Buffalo Mary Kascmarek, 2, was placed by some older children in a cardboard packing-case near the curb. Along came the garbage-wagon; the garbageman hoisted case, Mary Kascmarek & all, into the peccant swill. When the wind blew back his wagon tarpaulin, the garbageman discovered Mary Kascmarek, wiped her off, took her home...
...municipalities was set forth in Municipal Sanitation. Of the $218,000 Providence spent last year on garbage & rubbish, $142,000 was for collection. $73,000 for incineration. Among the collection costs were $107,000 in wages, $6,263 for gasoline, $4,450 for feed and hay, $1,104 for wagon repairing and horseshoeing. Incineration wages (cranemen, firemen, hoppermen et al.) totalled...
...Band Wagon has the services of Satirist George S. Kaufman (Once In A Lifetime) to show how ridiculous musical extravaganzas can be when done wrong, and Lyricist Howard Dietz and Composer Arthur Schwartz (The Little Show, Three's A Crowd) to demonstrate how good a revue can be when done right. Mr. Kaufman has first innings, sets his colleagues a stiff pace by presenting as a prelude a mad kaleidoscope of musicomedy cliches. There is an insanely pointless blackout, a senseless, sugary melody sung by ingenue and juvenile, a ludicrous torch song. A gesticulating chorus stamps out shouting...
Lead team of The Band Wagon is, of course, the Astaires. Never has this versatile pair been set to better advantage. As two incorrigible Parisian children playing hoops in the Pare Monceau (perhaps the loveliest of Albert R. Johnson's settings) it is evident that the Astaires have come a long way since leaving their native Omaha. Neb. Future revues will have a hard time equalling The Band Wagon's beauty, charm, imagination...