Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said General Johnson of Mr. Roosevelt: "A third term . . . a fourth and a fifth term . . . a 15th term, and finally elect Jimmy Roosevelt and then start all over again...
...gave up his untidy house in town, moved out to a country home near Stamford, Conn. There he clothed his immensity in a pair of frayed trousers and a sweatshirt. But he remained a member of Manhattan's exclusive Racquet & Tennis Club, wore costly suits made by a Fifth Avenue tailor when he went to town...
They sing plenty: lyric bits from such Herbert operettas as Naughty Marietta, Mile Modiste, Princess Pat; Herbertian fragments on streets, in a carriage, at dinner table, in a Fifth Avenue mansion shaded by a big eucalyptus tree. They run through eight songs in a brief bicycle ride among the mountains of Central Park. Since Paramount owns the rights to individual songs only, producers had to create phony scenes to give the effect of Herbert operettas. Victor Herbert devotees may be surprised, too, to hear words sung to such instrumental pieces as Al Fresco, Punchinello, Yesterthoughts...
...story, in which Victor Herbert plays fifth fiddle, concerns the unhappy marriage of a conceited tenor (Allan Jones) and his soprano protegee Louise (Mary Martin). Through years of professional jealousy, both are sustained and supported by singing Victor Herbert's music. Louise's voice gives out, her singing daughter (14-year-old Susanna Foster) takes over very creditably, despite a tendency to tail off in a musine squeak on the top notes (B flat above high...
...veterans left for both teams, the Red and Blue mentors in each sport see Pennsylvania reaching greater heights in its league competition than it did a year ago, when it finished in a tie for fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League and in a triple tie for fifth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League...