Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Monday night a tornado from out of Kansas City shuffled into town, settled down at the Southland, and proceeded to agitate all the window shades, rugs, and sundry jitterbugs gathered therein. Agitation was headed by Lester Young, tenor sax for the tornado, commonly known as Count Basie's band...
...Count's solos wherein you get his weird boogie piano backed by rhythm which is quiet, but which seems to say "Out of our way, we've swing to play." Get the Count to play you some slow blues with Jimmy Rushing singing a chorus, Lester Young playing clarinet, and piano by Mr. Basic himself; then go home and see if you still like Clinton...
...absence of Robert S. Hillyer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Frederick C. Packard, Jr., assistant professor of Public Speaking officiated. The three judges were: Robert W. Coues, instructor in English: Packard; and Robert F. Young, instructor in Public Speaking...
When Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn drove past him near Wilmington, Del., State Trooper Joseph Shannon stopped her "because she looked too young to drive a car." Later he declared: "I soon found out she was not a kid. She was a regular little wildcat. She shrieked . . . and generally acted like a bunch of wildfire...
Pretext for the ban was an article accused of slandering Italy's celebrated crippled poet, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The author of the piece, a young Italian critic who had dug up. much new material on Leopardi, admitted, the poet was "never very strong," but suggested that Leopardi's poor health may have been aggravated by his passion for ice cream...