Word: yoing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizens of Montgomery, Ala. noticed an old, blind Negro peanut vendor with an unusual line of sales talk: "Get yo' fresh parched peanuts, 5? a bag. Now don't you WTA workers be bashful, I'se got a special discount rate on for you all. Po' boys, we all know you all can't make no livin...
...bulls usually hold their own. Sportswriter John Kieran was able to distinguish between dodo, zobo, koto, Yo-Yo, popo, bolo, and locofoco. Scientist Bernard Jaffe, when asked what sextet had recently sung its way to fame, answered correctly: "The Seven Dwarfs." (Dopey was silent...
While Gold Is Where Yo Find It was being edited & cut, a hillside in Los Angeles' Elysian Park started shifting, tumbled boulders down on a highway beneath. To the scene rushed Warner cameramen with Technicolor equipment, floodlights for an all-night watch. Script writers got right to work on a landslide sequence to be added to the film. But the hill refused to budge for the cameramen. Last week Nature was more cooperative. As the Warner Bros, prepared to present their film simultaneously in 200 theatres throughout the U. S., flood waters swept out over the Sacramento Valley, inundated...
About other people's music Sibelius talks a great deal. But he was embarrassed by the wide publicity given his disparagement of Wagner, and has begun to hedge a little in his public statements. "Wagner, a genius . . . yo, yo, a great genius," he conceded airily to a recent interviewer. Earlier he had made no bones about his private estimate of the Pride of Bayreuth: "Wagner is rude, brutal, vulgar and completely lacking in delicacy! . . . For instance he shouts T love you, I love you.' To my mind that is something that you should whisper. . . . Look at his orchestration...
...Columbus, Ohio, Mrs. Minette H. Stahl sued F. W. Woolworth Co. & Donald F. Duncan (top distributors) for $31,304 damages incurred when, during a demonstration, she was hit on the back of the, head by a whirling yo-yo...