Word: kicks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mood"), and times when he doesn't do too well (see "Life goes to A Party"). His main trouble is that he goes off on these terribly stiff powerhouse trumpet phrases that simply tear the walls and your ears to pieces, and while there is a certain amount of kick to powerhouse style, you get tired of it very quickly, and a slow blues style such as on "Just A Mood" is quite welcome...
...another place he asks "Are the categories hitherto used in, let us say, University teaching, in our times, and our fathers', really serviceable? Does any really good mind ever get a kick out of studying stuff that has been put into water-tight compartments and hermetically sealed...
Billy Rose was not the only little man at the show. Encountered while he was resting between rounds of dedicating buildings, Mayor Fiorelio La Guardla said, "The Hasty Pudding Show? I got a great kick out of secing myself in that. I've been trying to copy that actor's laugh ever since...
...Newcastle, England, an importunate salesman sold Mrs. E. Renwick a refrigerator, had the law on her when she was unable to pay the installments. Snorted the indignant judge: "The only way to treat people who badger for sales is to take them by the scruff of the neck and kick them as hard as possible on the soft part of their anatomy." Verdict: Mrs. Renwick can have 2,160 years...
Leading the Crimson attack for the second game this season, Dave Colwell, former Ell football punter, booted a conversion and a penalty goal to the tune of five points. He was allowed his penalty kick half way through the final period after a Princeton had fouled by attempting to block...