Word: wonted
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...direction is a masterpiece of selecting and omitting. Cooper's inevitable denunciation scene wherein the simple but honest hero tells off those who have manipulated him for Evil Ends is held down to only a few lines. Miss Stanwyck is restrained from whining and blubbering interminably, as is her wont when directors give her freere...
...cutting my hare two thurds eech time for what is left insted of all over. If twant shes turibel neer sigted Id have ketched hell an she wuld have busted the barber an now theys compney comin an I dasent do it no more for qite a spel nor wont git to reed it out in the barn like I ben. This is to leave you know abowt why I aint reedin TIME if you shuld heer I quit on you an not leave you think I done it a purpus. TIME brings home more humunt events than my dogs...
From this point, the responsibility is yours. The ultra-venerable of Tory Row dowagers, who congregate regularly at the Cock Horse, generally choose one of the downstairs rooms where the rule is dignity, restraint and no smoking. Above, there are six semiprivate rooms where graduate students and professors are wont to soft-talk over their coffee. No liquor is sever in any of the various chambers; it just isn't that type of place. The Cock Horse is for sentimental its who like to dream of bygone days when the anvil and hammer changed and the oft-chanted poem...
...Basie's experience shows, have difficulty getting jobs, although their musical ability may be far greater than that of the stereotyped white bands which feather their nests with the proceeds of their successful mediocrity. Then too, once they hit the limelight, colored stars, like too many white players, are wont to sacrifice their playing styles to impress the multitude, as Eldridge is doing now. No matter how many Negro players are featured with white bands, they will do little to spread the popularity of their music unless they cease merely displaying their technical ability...
...course, the line is difficult to draw categorically between commercial swing and the orthodox "jazz hot," as continental "hepcats" are wont to call it. Therefore I claim the right to discuss even Sammy Kaye favorably, if I find germs of authentic jazz in his midst. If this be contradiction, make the most...