Word: askers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this light, your quotation of Louis Armstrong's famous reply to the man who asked him to define [New Orleans] jazz, "Man, when you got to ask what is it, you'll never get to know," appears as a beautiful and proper non-Aristotelian rebuke to an asker of Aristotelian nonsense-question. What is jazz, indeed...
Murder, He Says (Paramount) roughly-very roughly indeed-combines the most easily laughable aspects of Tobacco Road, Arsenic & Old Lace, and the ghoul-infested mansions of .Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons. It tells of one difficult evening in the life of a Trotter Poll question-asker (Fred MacMurray) who is investigating refrigeration among rubes and the mysterious disappearance of a fellow-Trotter. Startled when a luminous dog tears through the night woods, he runs afoul of the local Jukes family, whose name is Fleagle. While he twitches around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags...
...mean I got messenger dooty?" asked the one and only A.J., apparently forgetting that he is a drate big Bee man now. When the war is ever Bill (Flag) Asker is a lead pipe cinch to have trouble computing his income tax, because it is doubtful that he will ever got out of that 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 rut he now is in. The government won't like it, Bill...
...embroyo defense program, our air force still on order, and "the gentleman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who calls himself a 'two-fisted isolationist'." Leach had interrogated Verne Marshall on the New England Town Meeting of the Air last week, when the latter remarked, "Boy, what a question-asker...