Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singing that I have ever heard--easy, unaffected, done with long, slow phrases like Mildred Bailey, yet with the same rhythm that Ella Fitzgerald puts into everything that she does. Instead of Ella and Mildred singing duets, all the musical commotion was caused by a young lady with a wide grin surmounted by a pug nose. Later, over the traditional musician's supper--steak and French fries, this astonishing miss proceeded without the aid of any band to sing a style of lilting jazz with a sincerity seldom heard, and with a real singing voice--with the power and tone...
...Sutherland before him, took advantage of a 1937 judiciary act, the ghost of Franklin Roosevelt's ambitious Court Plan-permitting Justices with ten years' service to retire on their full $20,000 salary after 70. Whether he did so for his health, or to head a world-wide crusade for less fortunate Jews, or because his friend Felix Frankfurter was at last at hand to carry on his judicial tradition in the Court, Louis Brandeis did not say. When his letter was released later in the afternoon, he refused to discuss it. Franklin Roosevelt wrote a gracious reply...
Swinging swiftly in a wide arc he squared away for a landing, let down his landing gear. Then came some more of the sort of bad luck that has dogged new Army ships of late. As Pilot Kelsey suddenly realized that he was falling short, he opened his throttles to drag into the field. Without so much as a cough his left engine died. Plowing her wheels through a tree, the XP-38, with right engine throttled, slammed into the sand bunker of a golf course, came to a stop with her right wing torn off, her props hopelessly snaggled...
Deans. The College of Cardinals last week had 62 members, of whom 40 were in Rome-either because they live and work there or because they, along with most of Italy's bishops, had gone there for what was to have been a world-wide celebration: the 17th anniversary of the Pope's coronation. For these Cardinals there was much to do. Their first corporate act was to meet for consultation on a multitude of matters with Cardinal Camerlengo Pacelli and the three Cardinals who now constituted his cabinet. These three were the deans, eldest in point...
...book was written by ten famed Deweyite educators, among them Professors Harold Rugg and George S. Counts and Professor-Emeritus William H. Kilpatrick of Dewey's Columbia's Teachers College. Examining contemporary society, Dr. Dewey's followers conclude that: 1) a world-wide struggle is being fought beween democracy and dictatorship; 2) the U. S. is a "depressed society" and will probably continue so for many years; 3) rascism is rising in the U. S.; 4) not much time remains to do anything about...