IF: stomp
Oblivious to his pending fate, Oscar took a phone call.
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DCS: hattie mcdaniel
Hattie McDaniel is one of the most talented actresses and one of the most underrated actress ever to come out of Hollywood. After a successful beginning as an actress, singer and songwriter with her brother’s minstrel show, she toured with the Melody Hounds, a singing group. A radio performance by The Melody Hounds led to …
IF: tea
Then one day he was shootin’ at some food and up from the ground come a bubblin’ crude. Black gold. Texas tea.
Monday Artday: flight
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Her attempt to do the same across the Pacific didn’t work out quite as well.
DCS: lena horne
Lena Horne joined the chorus line at Harlem’s famed Cotton Club in the fall of 1933 when she was just 16. By the spring, she was a featured performer at the club, eventually touring as a vocalist with bandleader Charlie Barnet. Not a fan of life on the road, Lena returned to her native New …
IF: up
Adventure is out there!
DCS: frederick douglass
Frederick Douglass was a one-time slave who, secretly, taught himself how to read a write. He eventually escaped his inhumane treatment, fleeing to the North and settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He became an outspoken proponent for freedom as a firm believer in equality for all people. He was an advocate for voting rights for women and …
IF: mischief
Poor Bob Wilson! No one sees the mischievous gremlin on the wing of the airplane. except him. Not even Shatner‘s overacting could convince them.
DCS: henry heimlich
Henry Heimlich, a thoracic surgeon and medical researcher, wrote a piece for the trade publication Emergency Medicine, extolling the virtues of his abdominal thrust method of rescuing victims of choking. The procedure, used to success by a Bellevue, Washington restaurant owner on a choking patron, was embraced and promoted by both the American Heart Association and The American …
DCS: mary tyler moore
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?