Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort of quandary tonight. I don't know whether this is a political speech or not. ... I throw myself upon your indulgence and the indulgence of the radio companies, who would in the one case be paid and in the other case not be paid, and I throw myself on the indulgence of the American public. I don't know...
...revue is a burlesque show of the very best sort, with the same sort of humor--reasonably clean, of course--and the same sort of vaudeville. Unlike the Old Howard, it also displays some beautiful and seductive women. For the rest, however, it consists of the usual acrobats, guitar players, slapstick comics, and tap dancers. The De Marcos come down from the St. Regis and live to do a very nice bit of dancing. A troupe of jugglers awes very efficiently. Jane Pickens is lovely to look at and O.K. for listening, too, except when she teams up with some...
...Shanks is not very convincing when he argues that Kipling's later years were his best, or that Kipling is altogether the great writer-or quite the sort of great writer-Mr. Shanks tries to make him out. Kipling's greatest legacy to letters Mr. Shanks dismisses in a brief paragraph: ". . . the enormous influence which he has exercised on the practice of journalism in all English-speaking countries." But that, as Kipling would say, is another story...
...vest. Before he has finished his cigar, he starts sucking a cold pipe, then returns to the cigar. He speaks into an intercommunicator, gets no answer, shouts at it, then finds he forgot to turn it on. Chuckling and giggling, he delights in whimsies, fables and gags of the sort that baffle most businessmen, some of whom think he is insane...
...backfield may be vulnerable to forward passes. Lee and Heiden are quite definitely short, while Spreyer and Gardella are about six feet. They looked lost trying to cope with a man like tall Harlan Gustafson of Penn last year, and there may be more of the same sort of trouble in store again...