Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five original Dixielanders, not one could read or write a note of music. They were New Orleans boys who improvised their own tunes, played at picnics and prizefights for what purses they could get. The bigger the purse, the more eccentric their variations. Shields would take a phrase, play all around it on his clarinet. La Rocca would pick it up for a few "licks," pass it on to Eddie Edwards' trombone. Henry Ragas' piano set the tempo. Tony Sbarbaro's drums rattled a furious counterpoint. Other New Orleans bands had similar technique but none developed...
These were sample comments last week as Eastern railroads put into effect the fare cuts ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Bigger crowds in all stations gave proof that passenger volume had jumped instanter. Officials in every railroad admitted it but cautiously refused to give figures or estimates which might interfere with the suit which all Eastern roads except one are now waging against the ICC's order. Announced that one, the Baltimore & Ohio: "Sales and inquiries were greater than we anticipated and were very encouraging...
When the smoke cleared away both bandits were dying; Constable Jack Lewis lay dead on the floor. Behind the mask of the bigger bandit was the face of Ontario's model prisoner, Red Ryan. He had systematically engaged in robberies ever since his parole. A stolen car was parked nearby...
...Oceanographer was J. P. Morgan's famed yacht Corsair III, donated by him in 1929 before bigger, better Corsair IV was commissioned...
DAYS OF WRATH - André Malraux - Random House ($1.75). New authors, like clouds no bigger than a man's hand, appear frequently on the literary horizon, and never lack for meteorologists to predict their growth into the greatest storm yet seen. André Malraux is such a cloud. Before he swam into U. S. ken, transatlantic reports from his native France indicated that his thunder & lightning had awed many a seasoned observer there, and that the hailstones he had begun to pour down were of a majestic size and aspect unparalleled. When his Man's Fate (TIME, June...