Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was a whopper. The U.S. Fleet is not just something somebody leaves in the pocket of another pair of pants. The U.S. was a troubled nation last week, but at least part of its trouble came because it felt like a man who has mislaid a bass drum in a taxicab. The 17 battleships, seven aircraft carriers, 37 cruisers, 172 destroyers, 113 submarines and some 1,100 smaller vessels that made up the Fleet on Dec. 7 made a sizeable total to place when you were trying to remember exactly where you had been the night before...
Compensation. Near Seymour, Ind., when a duck hunter in a boat fired at a duck and missed it, a bass jumped aboard...
...Septet, tap dancing by an extraordinary young Negro named Baby Lawrence, songs by Maxine Sullivan, three of them to harpsichord accompaniment. The recital got chastely in the groove when the harpsichord, precisely pecked by willowy, red-haired Sylvia Marlowe, gave forth Pine-top's Boogie, rolling bass...
Chinese Puzzle. In Ogdensburg, N.Y., a fisherman swore that he caught a pickerel, opened it, found a bass, opened it, found a live perch...
...other days, it would have been called Gems from Show Boat. Ol' Man River rolled in on the violas and bass clarinet...