Word: blue
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They sailed on their way, o'er the deep blue ocean, never a thought of fear...
...black Rolls-Royce. Graham MacNamee, anxious to start talking, came on from the East. On New Year's Day the sun rode over the Rockies in a mist and swung down over the Pacific, a huge bulb set in a reflector that might have been made out of blue tin. Billy Mundy of the Atlanta Journal sent the game over the radio: "They're huddlin' down there . . . it looks like a crapshooters' formation and Lumpkin is wavin' his arms like he wanted a seven, a touchdown . . . there he goes . . . he's clear...
...flaming youth, it seems, are laid to the fathers by psychoanalysis, and the fathers return the compliment. What is more, from the point of view of the academicians, psychopathology is no science, and never will be, and hence it is damned. The kernel of it all is that the blue print of the mental underworld which it submits to our attention is so compromising to us all that at bottom we recoil. Psychopathology is, like "un bon petit diable", always up to mischief, and hence may be counted upon to infuriate the disciplined thinker on the one hand...
...look like much on paper. They have done well in their Schools, they have taken an active though unobtrusive part in the life of their College. Such a man may well contribute as much to his English friends in human values as the most brilliant First or the flashiest Blue...
...Werrenrath stated that he considered the new English classical jazz as presented by George, Gershwin, worthy of consideration with the best classical music, saying. "In Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, there is nothing more nor less than a classical melody which Gershwin has written in a jazz idiom. I think that this jazz adaptation in no way decreases the merit of the selection, but, on the contrary, any other manner of presentation, for in stance, the classical, would have completely altered the charm of the theme. Then, too, you must, consider that Gershwin speaks well only in a jazz vein...