Word: whatness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strange things have been known to happen to gentlemen on football weekends, however. What happens if one of the gentlemen gets drunk?
"If a man is drunk--and what few drunks we have are usually that way when they come in here--there's no need to lay a finger on him," says Jack Spear, manager of the Wursthaus. "Tact. That's the way to handle him. Place him on a pedestal...
"And in 99 cases out of 100," he continues, "the drunk will never remember about it the next day. He'll usually come back and ask, 'What happened to me last night?'"
Before yesterday, the Navy had been unsure of the proper interpretation of the clause. But in Washington last night the Navy's candidate training director Comm. L. C. Heinz said he thought the Navy could now "start applying the clause now that the point of controversy has been cleared up...
Bill Robinson, the celebrated "Bojangles," is, of course, a superb soft shoe dancer. What comes through in this movie is not only his great talent, but his obvious enjoyment in playing his part. This same enjoyment is also found in Lena Horne and Fats Waller, and that is what raises...