Word: bowsing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, with a driving white drummer and a trumpeter whose favorite range is up with the piccolos, the Duke is raising the roof at Manhattan's Paramount Theater, and later this month he will display his latest style at Carnegie Hall. He no longer has a musical home...
"People have got to concentrate when you start giving them the old habeas corpus mandamus potatus. Don't try to be required reading. Be a diversion . . . You remind me of an old ham in vaudeville stretching his laughs and sweating his bows and keeping the other acts hanging around...
One thing saddens Windjammer Villiers about today's Indian Ocean. Across its 4,600-mile face from Cape Town to Bombay, no bona fide sailing ship scuds before the trade winds. Without "the creak of well-seasoned timbers, the slow gurgle of water at the bows, the gentle hum...
But all is not won, for over their bows whistle shots from an approaching Allied ship. "Listen, Rita," says quick-witted Bob, "what color petticoat are you wearing?"
Pole Vault. Democratic politicos know Harriman can never hope to rival Estes Kefauver as a handshaker and winner of popularity contests. Instead, they have mapped a speaking tour through a dozen-odd cities from Boston to San Francisco just so delegates and the professional pols can get to know Harriman...