Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Lowes is lecturing on the Odes of Wordsworth today at 12 in the Fogg large Room. Those interested will find a stimulating lecture. As for the Vagabond, there are happier thoughts. Immortality? Perhaps the poet is right. But have you seen the foliage? It's on the wane...
...Bosambo, a reformed convict who becomes chief of a small tribe. Nina Mae McKinney (Hallelujah) is his wife. The part of King Mofolaba, a scapegrace chief whose misdemeanors account for most of the action, is ably played by a 77-year-old Negro hair-tonic specialist named Toto Wane. When, inflamed by contraband gin, he executes a white man and then plots to kill and skin Paul Robeson, it is too much for Commissioner Sanders. He turns back from a contemplated trip to England, arrives via airplane, shoots King Mofolaba, rewards Robeson for loyal assistance by making him head chief...
...fans, many of whom would not call Noble's slick music jazz at all, will haggle endlessly in defense of their favorite orchestras. Among famed dance bands, Paul Whiteman's has the richest tradition but his performances now seem sterile. Leo Reisman, another pioneer, is on the wane. The Lombardo band persists in "flabbing" but the public likes it. Two years ago dancing collegians turned to the stomping Casa Lomas. But with success the Casa Lomas are more & more mechanical. The Vallée band plays just as it always has, but Conductor Rudy has proved an unexpected...
Harvard's cases of ventral inconvenience seem to be well on the wane, with only 11 men reporting all week-end. The investigation of the foods has as yet been unsuccessful, and no one food is to blame...
...fact so pointed is his approach to Miss Campion that the noble Sir James resolves to save his lady's virtue by a mad flight in the teeth of a Labrador blizzard. By this time, however, Miss Campion's invulnerability to Dinsmore's attacks is perceptibly on the wane and when the escape ends in a circuitous return to the radio hut she is easily persuaded that it's a bit extreme to marry Sir James merely because he happened to be around when she chose to do a bit of drowning in Naples. Things are temporarily complicated...