Word: stairways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More jovial was the response to Mr. Wallace. Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Tal-burt summed it up by picturing a beaming figure called Third Term perched on a stairway, to the consternation of Conservative Democrats below, and quoting New York University Professor Mearns's jingle about the little man who wasn't there: "He wasn't there again today: Oh, how I wish he'd go away." Ordinarily irritated at reporters' prodding about the third term, generally inviting them to go stand in the corner, put on the dunce cap, or merely rewarding them with...
...vocal of the month: Ella Fitzgerald's Stairway to the Stars (Decca...
...famous duet done some years ago with Earl Hines, it still is plenty good jazz . . . By all means, listen to "Floyd's Guitar Blues" by Andy Kirk featuring the guitar player that Goodman is trying to wheedle away from Kirk with a few thousand dollars . . . Glenn Miller's "Stairway to the Stars" taken from the Park Avenue Fantasy in an attempt to imitate the success of "Deep Purple" is nice sweet stuff . . . And Lionel Hampton's "It Don't Mean a Thing" is really vicious swing
...girl dates--those feline hellions with their startling curves, who had hissed vengefully at the dagger scene and necked vigorously throughout the banquet scene--now had little regard for a rheumatic oldster like Vag. Push as he might, he got nowhere until suddenly on his left he found a stairway leading down. So down he went...
...didn't take an experienced trouper like Vag long to realize that he had strayed into the subterranean dressing rooms. Perturbed, he tried to retreat up the stairway, but a bevy of Arlington Amazons charged down on him and bore him along like a chip on some jabbering, be-furred tidal wave. Gadzooks, to be drowned in maidens and biushes! Right up to a door they pushed him. In self defense, Vag opened the door, slithered inside, and banged it behind...