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Word: waller (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allen Waller Morton, vice president of Koppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Draft on Business | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Daphne," by the Quintet of France, is rather meaningless... Mary Martin's album of Colo Porter tunes is okeh. We prefer Lee Wiley's records (General Records)... "Baby Won't You Come Home" is better rendered by the O'Neil Spencer Quartet than by Ella Fitzgerald; both Deccan... Fats Waller is still very funny, "Square From Delaware" being a good example... Even better though is the living Bing Crosby and Jobnny Morcer do on "Mr. Meadowlark" two swell showmen... "Bye Bye Blues" by Seger Ellis ain't nothing much other way... "Tired Socks". by Johnny Hodges sounds...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

...paying a small fortune to hear Bud Freeman and Pee Wee Russell grunt into their respective instruments on a pretty label. I'm, talking about the records-six bits down-of the Count and the Duke, of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller, Bittle Holiday and Mildred Balley, Fats Waller and Frankle Newton, and a host of others...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 5/10/1940 | See Source »

...Frenchy (Fats Waller; Bluebird). More resuscitation of Middle Period popular music, with Pianist Waller's own peculiar, headlong interpretation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...nine years Luxembourg's best friend-in-residence has been the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, George Platt Waller, who bestows on the dynasties of Central Europe that tender, familiar worship that the true Southern aristocrat can give only to royal families and his own. Visiting U. S. journalists address him as "Mr. Minister," enjoy equally his Martinis and his conversation. He likes to have them in Luxembourg because, if the Grand Duchy is invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUXEMBOURG: Ruffled Ruritcmia | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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