Word: ellington
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated." The story deals with a party to which Duke Ellington's orchestra, of Harlem's famed Cotton Club, are driven in the Fresh Air Taxi, and with the deed to some southern property. It must have been hard to make up and it is wearily told. Typical shot: Amos & Andy in the haunted house...
...casualty was Edward of Wales. In a Fairey 3-F fast bomber piloted by his personal pilot Squadron Leader David S. Don, H. R. H. went up to watch the fighting. In the afternoon he decided to change sides, approached the Blue headquarters of Air Marshal Sir Edward Leonard Ellington. It had been a poor week for fighting planes. A patrol of six fighters defending the Blue base saw a single red bomber approaching. Not recognizing the Prince's plane they dove at it with whoops of joy, raked it with imaginary machine guns, "sat on its tail" in approved...