Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little Flower almost did it. When he recommended to the UNRRA Council, meeting in Geneva's League of Nations Palace, that UNRRA cease operations in Europe by Oct. 1 for lack of cash, he stirred up a whirlwind of protest. Seven small nations, backed by Russia, pleaded that UNRRA aid be continued. Said Poland's Hilary Mine: "Those who suggest liquidation remind me of architects who, after great effort, build a house but stop short of a roof...
...course of his four days around the University, the Crimson football mentor held an informal pigskin clinic with five guest coaches, and concluded his whirlwind visit by watching an informal workout at Soldier's Field yesterday afternoon at which 40 gridiron aspirants were present...
...only a press agent for hot music but also a successful promoter, Hugues deserves credit for having blown the breath of life into that walloping organization, The Hot Club of France, and was instrumental in forming the French recording company called Swing. On his whirlwind visit to this country circa 1938, he did the spade work on Victor's re-issuing program, organized those lusty Mezzrow-Ladnier Quintet sessions on Bluebird, and godfathered one of Basie's best waxings, the Panassie Stomp...
...Senate dropped everything, and in whirlwind fashion passed unanimously a resolution extending the draft until July i. Within 30 minutes this expedient, conceived in haste, had reached the House. The lower chamber, not to be stampeded, considered qualifying amendments right up to this week's deadline. But somehow, the draft would limp along a while longer...
This barroom-ballad of a tale concerns Delia Green (Ruby Hill), a loose and lovely charmer who chucks a saloonkeeper for a whirlwind jockey called Little Augie (Harold Nicholas). The saloonkeeper gets plugged by a discarded flame, but thinking that Augie fired the shot, puts a dying-breath curse on him. Augie's luck changes and, hoping to lift the jinx, Delia leaves him. But his luck soon returns, and so does the lady...