Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like nature, may sometimes imitate art. While browsing through British Admiralty files for historical background on the self-propelled two-man torpedo, I came across this 1912 cartoon. Alsop's Ale (the hero's fuel) was Britain's favorite brew in 1912-as well known as Bass is today. The resemblance between Cartoonist Quick's conception and the real two-man article of today (TIME, May 1) is uncanny...
Backstage. British diplomacy sighed with relief; three weeks of frantic antics in the cabinet, a nervous treble to the ominous bass of mutiny in wartime, had almost wrecked the careful plans to keep the Greeks in London's orbit. Winston Churchill thought it wise to put his stamp on Papandreou, stress once more that Britain is not irrevocably wedded to King George of Greece. Said Churchill: "His Majesty's Government will give you all support. . . . The Nazi tyrant must be destroyed. . . . After this ... the Greek nation, free from foreign interference, will choose the form of democratic government under...
...century after Merlin's smashing entrance, the sport remained a parlor trick. In 1849 grand opera really put it on its wheels. For an ice-skating scene in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, the ballet wore rollers. Rehearsals were bruising-one ballet skater landed in the bass drum-but in London and Paris the scene was a hit. Skating became an international rage...
...Deal farm policies. But the Anderson bite is most painfully remembered by Iowa GOPsters. At a 1940 dinner attended by Cedar Rapids' Harrison Earl Spangler, now national Republican chairman (TIME, Feb. 14), Anderson got nettled by ques-tions as to how farmers would vote, exploded in his deep bass that they would never go with the G.O.P. so long as it was run by Spangler-type men. His Iowa friends have lately noticed in Anderson's "Out on the Acres" column a leaning toward conservatism, see election-year significance in his move to the rural journal of Philadelphia...
...piece band, consisting of four saxophones, three trumpets, two trombones, piano, drums, and bass, has already rehearsed once under the leadership of Chuck Drew V-12, of the unit. Many of the players have had professional experience in bands and on the radio and the instruments have been supplied by members of the group...