Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distinctive guitar players, and have a trick of chanting double-talk to get in the groove before cutting loose. They also like to take a Western tune and Tahitify it. Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay was one the Fahnestocks gave them; it came cut Ta-ra-ra-bon...
Although he was counted out at the first of the season because of an extra heavy set of courses, Bon Jay, last year's number two man on the Varsity, will participate in the race Saturday and probably during the rest of the fall season...
Death's final cadence this week closed the long career of a frail, wispy-haired Pole, the greatest pianist of his time, and one of the three greatest who ever lived. Patriot, man of affairs, bon vivant, philanthropist, Ignace Jan Paderewski had not played publicly since Poland fell. '"I simply could not stand it," he said...
When the ships left, Alexandrians heard soon enough where they had gone. The Navy announced its greatest success since the Battle of Cape Matapan: in the narrow channel between Sicily and Cape Bon, across which the Axis had run its forces and supplies for the Libyan attack, a cruiser squadron caught a convoy consisting of two ships laden with motor transport, one ammunition ship, and two ships thought to be carrying troops, all protected by three Italian destroyers. The British swept in, slapped aside the flimsy protection, and sank the whole convoy forthwith. The British lost one destroyer...
...raised with a concert for the Bagby Music Lovers Foundation, which gave a lift to indigent artists. Among its beneficiaries: Minnie Hauk, the first Carmen in the U. S.; Frau Richard (Cosima Liszt) Wagner, whom Morris Bagby had known in Europe; Baritone Antonio Scotti, onetime bon vivant...