Word: words
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once accused of muzzling Negro pickers in his pecan grove. He tickles the poor-white vote with his back-to-Africa talk, but he appeals to many a poor black as well. Last week he flourished a letter from Harlem: ". . . I, Mack Royal . . . seartnley will go at the word-I and my whole famley. . . . Sir, please inrole my name; please do this with fail...
...session in Berlin's Kroll Opera House,* but it was far from a solemn occasion. The deputies were scheduled to hear Herr Hitler's reply to President Roosevelt's recent proposal of ten years of peace (see p. 11), but even before the session began the word got around that the Führer's answer would be cute. Herr Hitler himself set a tone of gaiety for the meeting when, two nights before, instead of dictating his speech to a dictaphone and two harried stenographers, he dressed up in a little-worn dinner jacket...
...addressed a telegram to me, the curious contents of which you are already familiar with," began Dictator Hitler amid much tittering. The Führer then chopped up Mr. Roosevelt's telegram into 21 parts, prefacing his replies (see p. 11) to each of the parts with the word Antwort ("answer"). Each time he changed his inflection of Antwort; each time he got guffaws from the gallery and deputies. Big moment in hilarity came when the Führer got to Question No. 18 and read down the list of the 31 nations to which President Roosevelt had asked...
...have to stack it up at the head of things. No. 1 is that the Goodman brother act has ceased. Since the formation of the present band, brother Harry has been playing bass and brother Irving has been doing trumpet work on and off--mostly off. Now definite word arrives that Harry is leaving to devote full time to his Pick-A-Rib joint on 52nd Street in New York, while brother Irving is just leaving. This is not to be considered a downward step, however, for both these two boys were considered two of the worst in the business...
...later said to me that she had more fun working the Smoker than anything she had done in a long while) by here very swell singing, and Hildegarde proved herself far more than just a good piano player and better singer by her showmanship in handling the crowd. Word has sneaked around that Jeff Fuller '38 has opened his own hot shop in New York City. Come, gentlemen, a little reciprocal trade between Harvard, what? Fuller knows his stuff about records, and from what I can hear about the trips he has been making he has a lot of good...