Word: awkwardnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pete Brown and Frankie Newton were the heroes of the day, Brown working the hardest and longest, and playing better than ever before, Newton saving the concert at an awkward moment with superb showmanship. The finest music in the session came when they jammed together with three former members of Frankie's band, the Trottman brothers on piano and bass, and Billy Mason on drums. The outfit blended perfectly and the ensembles were terrific...
...something about the dark, dust-gathering swirls in the Victorian woodwork; something about the starched primness of their collars and the faded coloring in their petticoated dresses that made it easy to pass that on. Young men were ambitious and old men were Christian and children were an awkward combination of the two. But through it all life was slow enough for people to read the Bible to their grandchildren before they died...
Bernard Shaw, who commissioned Topolski to illustrate three of his plays, remarked that Topolski "succeeds so admirably at what Picasso tries to do. When Feliks draws something it looks awkward until it is finished-when Picasso draws something it looks awkward after it is finished...
From the deck they could see the elegant carrier Wasp, 14,700 tons of striking power, at the root of a great tree of smoke. She sat there, awkward in profile, still a dowager among ships, but dedicated now to fire, not to aviation...
...first sight of the first baby brought loud awkward delight to many a young veteran like American Volunteer Group Flyer John Hennesy, who first saw his daughter when she was six months old. The delayed pleasure of eating the favorite steak, salad, pie, cake and ice cream occupied many a returned soldier's first hours. Flying Tiger George Burgard luxuriated in a Turkish bath "to get about a year of the Orient out of me." Many were overwhelmed by the first sight of an American girl and some happily did the once despised chore of wiping the family dishes...