Word: bading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight seldom seen in such society. Fat old Clarinetist Darnell Howard had laid down his licorice stick, was making his way to the stand with a big white cake decked with three blue candles. He set the cake down, beckoned to a little cornetist with a droopy leprechaun face, bade him stand up and take a big bow. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, whom some Dixieland experts consider the best white jazz cornetist in the business,* grinned sheepishly. It had been just 30 years since Muggsy Spanier first split the smoky air of a dive in his native Chicago with a broad...
...Poonsters heralded the publication of the parody with a public show on the front steps of their building Thursday afternoon. The editors appeared in formal clothes, bade the College farewell, and disappeared in a limousine...
...West Berlin. Gratefully, Congressman Chatham asked if he could do a favor in return. "Yes," said the Russian, "take me to a PX." There Chatham loaded his companion down with nylon stockings, cigarettes, three cans of chocolate sirup, three pounds of U.S. coffee and 15 candy bars, and bade him goodbye...
House, courted no publicity. He was almost unknown outside Washington and western New York. But when he announced his retirement from politics last week, many of his colleagues in Congress bade him farewell with a one word eulogy: statesman. President Truman, ex-President Herbert Hoover, General Eisenhower, and many another national figure sent letters and telegrams of congratulation. General George Marshall flew to Rochester to pay tribute to him at a testimonial dinner...
...Keep your chin up, we're going to win," said Douglas MacArthur as he bade farewell to Chiang Kaishek. Then, as China's Generalissimo beamed and haoed, the U.S. Far East Commander flew off in his C-54 Bataan for Tokyo...