Word: afros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jazz piano that is expected from such vigorous Negro masters as James P. Johnson. Serene, reticent, sloe-eyed Mary Lou Williams was not selling a pretty face, or a ow decolletage, or tricksy swinging of Bach or Chopin. She was playing blues, stomps and boogie-woogie in the native Afro-American way-an art in which, at 33, she is already a veteran. Yet Mary Lou Williams felt nervous: for the first time in 6 years she was going it alone...
Locust females of the three varieties found in Middle Afro-Asia lay several hundred eggs each (by backing into the ground) which grow in a few weeks to winged adults from inch-long size to finger-length miniature bombers, can cross oceans. Experience has shown locusts had best be destroyed in their youth before they gang up and get off the ground. So observers watch their breeding spots. Since last February R.A.F. pilots patrolling the Red Sea have watched for locust swarms as well as enemy aircraft. First step is to destroy the egg emplacements, then spread poison weak enough...
Ever since 1875 when Emperor Franz Josef shook his royal britches to the tune of the Afro-Cuban habanera, the world has imported a remarkably large part of its popular music from Cuba. But only in recent years has this import business mushroomed into a sizable industry. Captain of that industry today is a black-haired, rather chinless band leader, Xavier Cugat (rhymes with glue pot), who gets an annual gross of $500,000 purveying the Cuban rumba and other Latin-American rhythms to the U.S. public. Last week Importer Cugat was at the peak of his career...
...regular hours of newspaper work soon got on Cugat's nerves. That was in 1928 when Paul Whiteman was still King of Jazz. No jazzman, Cugat realized that he could not compete with Afro-Saxons on their own ground. So he bravely cultivated a little Afro-Latin plot of his own. With a rumba orchestra of six, he opened at Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove...
Baltimore's semiweekly Afro-American promptly reminded Tunesmith Berlin that "the term 'd-y' [is] offensive to colored people." Said the Afro-American: "The piece is sung by Bing Crosby . . . and came to the attention of the Afro after it was blatantly rendered in its naked aspect by Fred Waring...