Word: right
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most inept and unsnappy that I can recall. In fact I might say it was positively dumb. What Mr. Whitaker tried to tell you in a nice way was that the moisture that accumulates in musicians' wind instruments was not spit but actual water, and he was right...
...Defended the right of WPA workers to join unions, but said flatly and definitely that no Government employe has the right to strike...
...main commercial nowadays is Information Please, which is right up his broad alley. For this weekly half-hour, he collects $100 a week from Canada Dry. But since he announces it on NBC's time, the network thriftily docks him three-quarters of an hour's basic pay-about...
Dewey has three equally good forward lines and a very promising goalie to depend on, but the defense is the one spot that gives cause for worry. Right now Dick Cutler and Caleb Loring are working at the blue line, but there is a possibility that some of the big forwards like George Gebelein or Chester Jenks might be tried out of this position...
...Vagabond hasn't written to you for a long time. Say, 12 OR 13 Years. Of this he is acutely aware right now. Once there was a day when Vag wrote a letter to you each Christmas. This letter was inevitably the only nit of writing he did outside of school. Somehow, it never seemed a hardship--as was all other writing. It was scribbled rather carefully in pencil--on the dining room table just after the supper dishes had been cleared away. About this time of year, it was, too. Annually, it must have caused Mr. Farley's postal...