Word: waterlooed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small that he has to use an amplifier when he sings on the stage. But he can put a song over in what he calls an "intimate parlor baritone," and in many a parlor he hires himself out for private parties. He started singing that way back in Waterloo, Iowa, he claims, after he lost his voice cheerleading at a football game...
...Waterloo remembers Little Jack Little as John James Leonard, a cricketlike boy whose father was a mechanic in the local cream-separator factory. Jack Leonard went to the State University planning to be a doctor but he spent most of his time there getting up orchestras, playing for dances. He decided to go into vaudeville but it took his adopted, sandwich-like name to bring him luck. In 1922 he started plugging songs for a music publisher from KDKA, Pittsburgh's pioneer station. That year he wrote "Jealous," his first & biggest...
...Tsar, and France's Talleyrand were the most important. Talleyrand, although he represented the losing Power, was able to break into the negotiations and align England and Austria against Russia and Prussia. Nor did the Congress break up when Napoleon escaped from Elba. It stayed until shortly before Waterloo, until the last scrap of Napoleon's empire had been disposed...
...screw steamers which have a propeller in back only, and when the Union Steamship Co. placed their twin-screw Arahura on the run (propeller on the side also, but I hope this will not involve TIME in a nautical argument as I am no sailor), Pelorus Jack met his Waterloo. Shortly after the Arahura went on the run his dead body was picked up with a big wound in the side, the inference being that in brushing himself against the side of the ship he had run into the side propeller. I had not meant to be quite so chatty...
...comedy rather than to outdoor sport, and it almost always contains a murderer, a lunatic, a butler or a ghost. This time the lunatic is Stuart Erwin. He thinks that he is Napoleon and his lugubrious schizophrenia prompts him to describe Claudette Colbert as "La Duchesse" and to murmur 'Waterloo!" with the pensive intonations of a hoot-owl. His resourceful guards recapture him by singing "La Marseillaise." Meanwhile Claudette Colbert's squeals grow less indignant...