Word: wolfing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotcha, how ya doin, hey hey," that the college boys want from the dance orchestra today. Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, and more rhythm that is the spirit of the musical age. The day of the "Peanut Vender," and "Yes, We Have No Bananas," is over. 'The Big Bad Wolf," "Mine," and "Heat Wave" -- they're the kind of songs people like now. Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington have ushered in a new era of popular music...
...take a hand. They nominated Professor Harold L. Reed, hard money man from Cornell, in opposition. The vote: 53 (hard money men) for Professor Reed; 58 (soft money men and hard money friends) for Professor Rogers; 1 (an economist with a sense of humor) for the Big Bad Wolf...
...eleven desperadoes who fled the Kansas State Penitentiary last May, nine had been killed or jailed when the tenth was trapped last week in a small house at Shawnee, Okla. He was Wilbur Underbill, known as the "Lone Wolf" and the "TriState Terror" for his killings and robberies in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri...
Aside from the split-up of Roosevelt & Son, the turn of the year brought few important shifts in Wall Street's personnel. Ralph Wolf and Leon H. Kronthal retired from the old house of Speyer & Co. and three new partners were admitted-Henry Herrman and Charles G. Stachelberg, both long associated with the firm, and George Nelson Lindsay, onetime vice president of Bancamerica-Blair Corp. And John Daniel Hertz was taken into the banking house of Lehman Brothers...
...Manhattan last week Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach said that $511,250 for the Codex Sinaiticus was the largest sum ever paid for a book or manuscript, that the U. S. S. R. had offered it to him last year...