Word: blake
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Blake Dennison, sculling coach, hopes to simplify the system of classification so that next spring there will be but three types of boats in the graduating system, namely wherries, compromises, and single shells...
...hotel. Weird guests arrive-a black man in white tie and tails with a gorilla, a headless man carrying his head, a magician who scares Schenectady by materializing a goldfish bowl on his head, a "Lonesome Ranger" astride a goat, an invisible man who keeps appearing, and Brutus Blake (Maceo B. Sheffield), who holds a mortgage on Schenectady's hotel. Most of the horseplay centres around Brutus, who tears up floors and walls hunting for hidden gold, scares the chambermaid, gets chased by the gorilla, by his wife, makes love to lovely Lady Queenie (Margarette Whitten), the hotel...
...brass section and an exceedingly wobbly hunk of rhythm. Now, however His Highness has stepped into the market and returned with several juicy chunks of swing--namely Chu Berry on tenor sax, Cozy Cole on drums, Milton Hinton on bass, Hilton Jefferson on alto, Kay Johnson on trombone, Jerry Blake on clarinet and a kid trumpet player named Danny Barker...
...coach of the team is Sergeant Waldo Phinney of the Boston Marine Corps. He is one of the finest marksmen in the East, and his broad experience adds to his value as a coach, Kurt Groote of the Naval Science department and Gilman Blake, graduate student, assist in coaching the team...
Lillian and Martha Blake did not mind being held as witnesses. They grinned with pleasure over their new shoes...