Word: bandanas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terrific Content." In 1927 the Cotton Club was a big, flossy Harlem joint at 143rd Street and Lenox Avenue, with bandana tablecloths, fake foliage and a reputation as a speakeasy. But Harvard and Princeton boys soon found the way there and crowded around the bandstand on weekends. They muttered sagely to each other "terrific mood, terrific content" as the Duke played such originals as The Mooche, Mood Indigo and Black and Tan Fantasy. The New Orleans jazz boys were then spreading a simple, primitive and powerful music; but the Duke was talking a new pulsing and sensual language...
...well," she reported promptly in her column, "though for some time I shall look as though I had been in a football game without having taken any training. My eyes are black and blue. In fact, I am black and blue pretty much all over. If I tied a bandana around my head, I think I would resemble some of the Pirates of Penzance...
Pink-faced, burly Burl has been on location for eight weeks at Kanab, Utah. In a rumpled, tan coat, baggy pants, and a red bandana around his throat, he looks more like a studio hand than a new star. Now about to be given a big Hollywood push, he well remembers his last trip to Hollywood, fresh out of the Army. He got a runaround. Says he: "Boy, it sure beats all the way they throw jobs at you when you finally land a good one, and the way they hide jobs on you when you haven...
...Chavantes seem to have fathomed the plan. The first presents were bundles of bandana handkerchiefs dropped on one of their thatched villages. The Chavantes built large fires and ostentatiously burned the bandanas...
...stood spellhound staring bleakly as the spirit, of Christmas himself, Larry Jaffa (English run cake and all that) skipped merrily, through Mellon C and D. Ray Wible took one look and put in an emergency call to report the situation to the B.D.O. Dressed in a Lilli Dache model bandana, white gloves, and red stockings, Larry succeeded in throwing the holiday spirit and the disbursement assignment into high gear in short order...