Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then to finish off the program, Dan Fleckinger '41, Dave Bennison 1L, and Bill Whitcraft '39 played two Goodman trio numbers with Fleckinger turning in a passable facsimile of Ted Lewis, and then the Crimsonians smoothly swung Goodman's "One O'clock Jump" with Casa Loma's "White Heat" as an encore...
...busiest in the Capital and one of its principal assets is Partner Richberg's erstwhile intimacy with Franklin Roosevelt. Although he still sees the President frequently, Donald Richberg's advice no longer carries much weight, for the anti-NRA team of Cohen & Corcoran, high in White House favor, are decidedly anti-Richberg...
Present at the opening of Manhattan's 1939 International Flower Show were two newcomers: Dorothy Thompson (a pearly-blue sweet pea) and Brendo (a white-petaled, crimson-lipped orchid...
...Manhattan Magistrate's Court, year ago, Nurse Pearl White charged that Nurse Essolene Monnier, off & on since 1930, had been calling her obscene and profane names on the telephone. Magistrate Thomas A. Aurekio found Essolene Monnier guilty. Last week the Court of Appeals reversed him, ruled it impossible to commit a breach of the peace by calling anyone anything whatever, by telephone...
...example of Melville's romancing is his account, in White-Jacket, of falling overboard on his 14-month voyage home on the frigate United States. Probably one of the most vivid escapes from death in literature, it is the scene which prompted Biographer Lewis Mumford to observe that Melville had now "faced life and death, not as abstractions, but as concrete events. . . ." But Melville never fell overboard in his life. Says Author Anderson: Melville suffered this vicarious experience in an account by a seaman who fell overboard from the frigate United States 18 years before...