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Here's to the glory of the Great White--awk--who has been running--er--er--things in recent...
...just shaking my chemise." Maryanna explained to a popeyed customer, but her pronunciation was a little awk ward, and the shimmy got its name. World War I had just ended, and the new dance and the girl who invented it sluiced east ward toward Broadway on a rising tide of bathtub gin and needled beer. By then, Maryanna had become Mary Gray. But Red Hot Mamma Sophie Tucker caught her act and told her that Mary was no handle for a hoofer. Sophie looked at the spun-gold hair above the lithe, slim shape and decreed that Mary should...
Most kids on the narrow Nicetown streets played a form of stickball; not Roy Campanella. His big hands felt awk ward on a slim broomstick. He played honest sand-lot baseball with the Nicetown Colored Athletic Club or the Nicetown Giants. Soon he was good enough for American Legion ball with Loudenslager Post...
...Awk!" he exclaimed, doing his derisive imitation of a parrot, "Awk...Band Music...Free Beer...Awk, Awk...Free Beer...Awk...
...roommate had departed for the reunion at 8:30, leaving Elliott P. Willoughby seated unhappily on his bed facing the open window, making victorious little Awk noises to himself...