Word: winging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many able adapters of the pit-a-padding rhythms have been concerned with these developments: Fatherly Theodore Snyder, composer of The Sheik; George M. Cohan, the Irish jigamarig, writer of buck-and-wing dips; George Gershwin, ingenius, musicianly; Jerome Kern, melodist; Tintinnabulator Zev Confrey, who wrote Kitten-on-the-Keys. But more important than any of this company is a certain Israel Baline who took the name of an English actor and a German city, became known to the public as Irving Berlin. For the last ten years, he has written a national anthem a year. His prodigality has never...
...Ceremony. The great day came. The University of Mount Scopus (consisting at present of a remodeled house, a copper-domed wing, an unfinished amphitheatre) was crowded by 8,000 clamoring spectators. The ancient city of Jerusalem was as festive as it could be without Arab cooperation. Jewish hawkers sold "Balfour biscuits," "Balfour keftas" (rissoles), "Balfour chocolate," which was not strange in a land which has a model village named Balfouria...
Meantime, Deputy Farinacci, leader of the '"Savage" or reactionary wing of the Fascist Party, extricated himself from the welter of fists and feet, dragging Communist Deputy Damen by the scruff of his neck. Backing his victim up against the wall, the Fascist proceeded to inflict "scientific punishment" in true Italian style, after which he ejected the Communist violently out of a door into a cold, stone corridor. Farinacci, complacent, stalked back to his seat with the air of a man who had nobly performed a noble deed. The remaining Fascisti, taking their cue from Farinacci and totally oblivious...
...point I wish to make is this: the literary style and temper of this anonymous reviewer are lacking in good taste; they detract from the tone of the Bookshelf as a white-checked vest and wing collar spoil the appearance of a quietly well-dressed...
...long as it does not interfere with the State, look on the Church as the chief tool of the royalists among the common people. The growth of socialism and communism have gone hand in hand with an increasing distrust of the church, until now the radicals, as a vital wing of the majority coalition, have decided that France shall have no official connection with the Vatican...