Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dear dignity's sake, two jazzmen prepared to slough their nicknames. As opening wedge, "Pee Wee" Irwin demanded billing as George "Pee Wee" Irwin. "Muggsy" Spanier became Francis "Muggsy" Spanier. "Fats" Waller, "Cootie" Williams, "Wingy" Mannone, "Buster" Bailey stood...
...five jar things,'' Say the bells of Saint Martin's. "When will you pay me?" Say the bells of Old Bailey...
...Martin-in-the-Fields was one of London's first blitzed churches. A bomb penetrated the crypt, but the bells are sound. The Church of St. Sepulchre stands opposite Old Bailey, which was hit three times, but the church, whose tenor bell once tolled for executions, has so far escaped. The Shoreditch bells are untouched. Incendiaries burned holes in the roof of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, legendary church of all those born at sea. The windows were blasted, but the church and its bells are intact. Bow Church was damaged; its bells remain...
...uneasy when something unusual happened at one of their parties-as, for example, when Park's pretty wife Lynne, doing a dance with a pair of pots for a bra, lost her pots. That was a bit off the pattern. But it was all right for Peter Bailey to strew the living room with toilet paper. That was a tradition. It was also part of the pattern for Peter to find Park kissing Peter's wife. Peter remarked cheerily, "Some fun, eh, boss?" and strolled back to the dance...
Concluded Dr. Bailey: "Massage-earlier massage-is the life-giver; adrenalin is its handmaiden...