Word: beatin
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...kind of speakeasy--swing-easies"--behind sound proof doors? "Joe sent me"--furtive men carrying hot choruses around in black satchels--"Yeah, the straight stuff's here--Norvo, Basie, they're all beatin' it out downstairs"--black trucks being hijacked for rare records--raids on dives where Louis Armstrong is tearing "Dinah" to shreds? We'll probably all end up playing Mickey Mouse piano with Shep Fields...
...forth thus: "Miss Hepplethwaite, take a letter...Why not?..Don't I pay you to take letters, or did you think I had you around here just for the sheer joy of living? ..Go ahead, be a, sport and take the letter, Martha..Well, why not?..You are the beatin...
...filled the harbor with bo'ts made o gingerbread an paint, that come a-scurryin' back to their moorin's a fore it blows hard enough to muss a woman's hair. Not much like ye, them yachts. I'd like to see one o'them bo'ts beatin' round the Horn an' up to Californy in ninety-two days! That's what ye done, ole girl! Praise be there's some as ain't forgot it! Maybe some...