Word: adept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jumping Ken Club is now indistinguishable from a thousand and one other marginal niteries. Best bet out of a poor field is the Club Savoy near the corner of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues. Here a former Hampton sideman, Earl Bostie, manipulated the keys of his alto in an exceptionally adept but rather confusing manner. The member of his unit, a remarkably happy looking and youthful bunch compared with most jaded jazzmen, were largely recruited from Benny Carter's and Lionel Hampton's outfits some months ago in New York. They have recorded several items on the Gotham label none...
...things. From thence and in the following order "Sweet Sue," "Blues in B Flat," "Tea for two," "Ja Da," and "The Sheik" were attacked. One of the reed men, a startling cross between Johnny Dodds and Joe Marsala blasted out a machine gun-like obligatto in answer to the adept growlings of the slip horn, while the cornetist, feeling no doubt that he was being attacked from both sides, lashed out wildly with punchy, agitated jabs. During these gyrations, the pianist managed the almost superhuman job of bringing order out of chaos. It was a never-ending source of amazement...
From Washington popular Mike Pearson went back to Ottawa to take Norm Robertson's place. In calling him home, Prime Minister King was giving his new and relatively inexperienced External Affairs Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent a thoroughly experienced, adept right hand. He was also, significantly, bringing within arm's reach a man whose name has been mentioned as Mr. King's political crown prince...
Bordley thinks the real genius was not even Rubens' "best pupil" Anthony Van Dyck, but a fellow who was supposed to be especially adept at painting the animals in Rubens' hunting scenes. His name: Frans Snyders...
...Last week, on Navy Day, he again denounced the Argentine "state of siege" which "permits a hoodlum with brass knuckles to strike the face of a young girl because she cries, 'Long live democracy! " In short, the Senate drubbing had not changed the bull. Braden had always been adept at stepping carefully, calculating just the china to be smashed. But the horns and the hooves were still there, and would be so long as he practiced what he had preached to Argentines: "The voice of freedom makes itself heard in this land, and I do not believe anyone will...