Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both these recoveries obtained considerable publicity soon after they occurred. I published scientific accounts of them in an ornithological journal, and I have no less than sixty clippings cut from various newspapers and other periodicals dealing with them. They run the gamut from the New York Times and the Boston Transcript, through the Christian Science Monitor and sundry farm journals and the like, to the New York American and the tabloids, the last of which headlined the first recovery as ''Lindy's only rival a three months old baby...
...describe the homely adventures of two Negro boys (Amos is high-voiced, nervous; Andy is deep-voiced, domineering) who operate, with one cab, the "Fresh-Air Taxicab Company of America, Incorpulated." They lead humble love-lives and club-lives ("The Mystic Knights of the Sea"), and run a whole gamut of perplexities and predicaments not too exaggerated to be recognized by their listeners. They are supported by a host of supernumeraries, but they produce all these voices themselves, including that of an occasional dog. So intimately concerned do their audiences become with the careers of Amos 'n' Andy...