Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music Hold Tight sold 100,000 copies, in orchestrations 10,000. The Andrews Sisters' recording sold 150,000, 20,000 more than their Bei Mir Bist Du Schön for same period. It reached fourth place in the Hit Parade. This week, just as the radio got wise, the Fishery Council New York and Middle-Atlantic Area Inc. decided to adopt Hold Tight as its theme song...
Hailed last week as the "Aurora Flash" and sought as a contract rider, baby-faced Johnny Oros, as bashful and unsophisticated as Don Meade is arrogant and wise, rebelled at his first interview. "Aw shucks," said he. "There ain't any mystery about me or my riding. I don't use no special tricks. I don't whisper no sweet words in the horse's ear. I just sit up there and hang...
...John Nance Garner's Presidential boom was advanced last week by friends who made much of a letter he wrote his partners in the cheap-house business at Uvalde, Tex. Emphasized excerpt: "I suggest that you consider the amount of indebtedness you are accumulating. . . . 'It is not wise to bite off too much in the beginning...
Bearer of the lecturing, traveling, interviewing, letter-writing and literary brunt is Miss Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson. She has been Mrs. Roosevelt's private secretary for 17 years. A sagacious, worldly-wise grass widow (until her 1938 divorce, Mrs. Scheider), Miss Thompson declares that never has she known Mrs. Roosevelt to do or say anything insincere. She thinks her ability to do and say so much results from Eleanor Roosevelt's being what is really meant by the word Christian...
Died. Henry Alexander Wise Wood, 73, inventor of many improvements in modern printing presses, and first president of the American Society of Aeronautic Engineers; of a streptococcic infection; in Manhattan...