Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Tough as a mukluk (fur boot) was Sourdough Edwin A. Robertson, a Maine-born man who had lived most of his 84 years in Yukon country. Fortnight ago, Sourdough Robertson left his lonely cabin on Seventymile River, mushed for Eagle to lay in supplies. The air was deadly cold; spicules of ice rimed the oldtimer's whiskers. Warily he plodded. He knew his Yukon, knew that while the running creeks freeze solid early, little springs that never freeze bubble under the snow all winter; that to crash through an ice-skin meant wet feet that would freeze almost instantly...
...clever. As far as I could see, it capitalized on every music sure-fire ever invented: catchy, inclusive rhythms, abrupt changes in tempo, wild polytonality, a string technique which graded off from whole pages of unbearably shrill violin-chatter at some times to a Brahmsian luxuriance at others; to boot, reams of discordant counterpoint and impressively dull masses of sound. The quartet was musical sleight-of-hand personified, and it oozed cleverness. But it didn't ring true. Its themes bickered away in endless mediocrity, in a ceaseless spewing forth of notes and more notes--the whole thing suggestive...
...Where Can I Go From You" is an example of the heights the show reaches. The song, the best by far, couldn't be kept off the Hit Parade with a shot-gun and to boot there is dancing by Bill Robinson and the chorus, and song by Nancy Noel and Bill Johnson. Another eye-opener is "It's A Big, Wide, Wonderful World" and "The Macumba" with Imogene Coca and Candido Bothello's delightful voice...
Minnesota is accustomed to good football teams. The State is full of husky farm boys who make powerful linemen, powerful backs. When Minnesota gets a smart quarterback, to boot, it invariably has a great team. This year Minnesota has such a quarterback: Bobby Paffrath...
...Freshman tilt, the Yardlings wiped away a one goal Bruin lead with scores in the third period. But the Cubs came back in the last canto to boot in another one to make the game...