Word: au
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dilation on the many all-night, private jam sessions I have attended, listening to the all-star jamming of such gates as Chu Berry, Louis Armstrong, Leon Roppolo, and Jimmy Harrisson. But I have not listened to their improvising purely with my emotions, for me "toujours I'approche intellectuelle au sujet" (always the intellectual approach for any subject). For instance, I am ravished by the celestial ninths which J. C. Higginbotham (Higgy to his friends, among whom I am proud to say I am numbered) plays on that good old slush-pump, and I am not alone in believing that...
...fence. With his attractive Brazilian wife and two sons, Artist Segall lives in big, bustling Sao Paulo. But he often goes back country to paint. Most appealing canvas in the show came from one such trip: Negro Mother, an almond-eyed, woolly-haired girl holding up her café-au-lait infant...
...Miss Morgan's list of officers are such social lionesses as Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chicago, Mrs. George A. Crocker, the Misses Elizabeth Perkins, Maude Wetmore and Daisy Fiske Rogers. They send blankets, clothes, ambulances, entirely for civilian relief. Le Paquet au Front-clothes, toilet articles, sweets, tobacco, games for French soldiers at the front-was organized by Mrs. Seton Porter (National Distillers). More than 20,000 paquets worth $5 each have been shipped...
...wooden handgrips) and caught hold of it. Somebody was close to me in the water. Looking back, I am more and more amazed by the unreality of the whole affair. I remember being seriously worried as to the propriety of scrambling on top of this raft. I was not au fait with ocean etiquette. For all I knew, good Riflemen ought to hang onto the side. However, my scruples cannot have been very serious, for the next moment I was established...