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...Deacon's own favorite appeared in the Salt Lake City Tribune at the height of speculation over whether Hitler was really dead: IS HE IS OR IS HE AIN...
...leagues. The older fans could still recall the heyday of the old big-league Orioles, who won three straight pennants-1894-96-and boasted such baseball immortals as Third Baseman John ("Muggsy") McGraw, Shortstop Hughie Jennings, Catcher Wilbert Robinson and Outfielder Wee Willie ("Hit 'em where they ain't") Keeler. Baltimore's return to the big leagues, it appeared, would have to wait a while...
...Heyward; lyrics by DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin) reached Broadway for the fifth time since 1935. Such popularity is indeed deserved: the great roll call of Gershwin tunes alone-Summertime, A Woman Is a Sometime Thing, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', Bess, You Is My Woman Now, It Ain't Necessarily So-would be enough to explain it. But Porgy and Bess approaches authentic American opera: its very story is picturesquely American and unblushingly operatic. The crammed, violent life of Catfish Row inspired George Gershwin to something beyond show music, though it is still the show music, after...
...still value antiquarianism and even the snob appeal of a 'gentleman's education' to get hot under the collar. Of course, a world without snobs would be terribly lonely for us, and the teaching of the arts in General Education would find itself on the old spot of 'ain't it lovely.' I am sure this is not what Conant had in mind...
...This is a small town, mister," said the telephone operator in a voice of protest. "This ain't Detroit, you know, and we're all kinda upset ..." But last week Clayton knew in its heart what it had long denied: it harbored poverty, fear, meanness, and the base passions, too. Clayton would not be the same for a long, long time...