Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After his Milwaukee Braves had slipped from first place in the National League to fifth in 13 days, jolly, banjo-strumming Charlie Grimm last week sadly submitted his resignation as manager, was replaced by Coach Fred Haney, who led the lackluster, last-place Pirates of 1953-55. ¶On Lake Onondaga at Syracuse, N.Y., Cornell's brilliant eight-man crew easily won the 54th Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta, began to point for the Olympic tryouts on June 28 and the veteran Navy crew (now the Admirals) that won the Olympics in 1952. Meanwhile, Yale, another Olympic threat, rowed merrily...
Three walks, a sacrifice hit and a tworun scoring bloop double for Nichols in the eighth inning spelled Crimson defeat for the first time this season. Jim Congleton relieved Hoffman and was the victim of the banjo blow. The JV's next game is against Quonset Navel Station tomorrow...
...Crimson contingent, stopped by drifting snow in the middle of Scollay Square, took refuge inside the Big Drum and sent out squads of banjo players to buy coffee. The combined resources of band members met the price of only a single cup of brew, however, since tariff changes early this week sent coffee prices rocketing...
...winning question: to identify the first example of "scat" singing (Heebie Jeebies), the recording group (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) and all the players (Armstrong on the cornet, Kid Ory on the trombone, Johnny Dodds on the clarinet, John St. Cyr on the banjo, Mrs. Armstrong at the piano...
...still on a stage with an idiotic look on her face." Crazy. With this thought to goad him, and a stock of U.S. period pieces to lend atmosphere, Bernardin opened a night club in the style of the wild and woolly West, complete with waiters in candy-striped shirtsleeves, banjo players and a suitably active, shapely and deciduous stripper named Miss Fortunia. Fortunia's act at the Crazy Horse Saloon caught on like a prairie fire. By last week Le Striptease was sweeping Paris from Montparnasse to Montmartre, and even seeping out of the city to enliven the sleepy...