Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armstrong blues vocal on "Long, Long Journey" should have been something to write home about because the old master of delayed action rhythm and bottom-of-the-well tonsilar gymnastics had not sung any blues for the wax machine since the Decca New Orleans album. For some unknown reason, however, although Satchelmouth's vocal cords seemed to be in the best of form, the record doesn't register. Arrangers of all-star recording sessions encounter innumerable difficulties, especially when they use original tunes. This time the synthetically blue lyric and melody of Mr. Feather's just weren't enough...
What it seemed to boil down to was fear of what the landlord, the butcher, the baker-the other fellow-was going to do. Maybe everybody would now try to make a killing. And then again, maybe he wouldn't. The U.S. people, at bottom, have a great deal of common sense. Now they would be called upon...
...naturally, if I make the decision, it will be the people. . . . I don't know whether that will please you or not. . . . Some time when you have reached a cooling-off period, I'd be glad to talk with you about the whole situation." Scrawled across the bottom of the typewritten page, in the President's hand, was the command invitation: "Come...
...wife in 1932, just after he had ballooned to the stratosphere from Switzerland and landed with a wallop across the Alps. Last week, still stuck with his pledge, the Swiss scientist announced that he would try exploring in the opposite direction: next February he will head for the bottom of the ocean...
...faces the task of superimposing three pictures on a single frame. A triple exposure, he claims, means far too great a margin of error, and he is afraid that if he put what he wanted on celluloid, lined up the three desired simultaneous images, and fired away, that the bottom picture would be obliterated by the top two and the total result would be confusion...