Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music in Louisiana. He follows the folk trail in a battered 1953 Mercury, tracking down leads with the persistence of a questing lepidopterist. Recently he heard of a mulatto woman named Madame Sam who lived in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, and supposedly sang a particularly unadulterated brand of old French. Sam, it turned out, was not up to her billing, but she sent Oster chasing downriver to Port Sulphur, where another ancient mulatto named Alma Bartholomew produced, on request, 60 different pre-17th century French songs...
...Stuart Davis, by E. C. Goossen, traces the logic that leads Davis to paint as he does. Davis' sharp, brassy, eye-hurting brand of abstraction is something all his own, however, and not easily analyzed...
...Ashamed because she had been badly taught in French and German, she began studying English ("a brand-new language") at night school in 1939, went on studying at home during World War II, reads U.S. books in the original...
...line, Crimson inside John Mudd displayed an aggressive brand of offensive play that resulted in several near-misses, as well as several jumping-in penalties. Al Butzel, replacing ailing John Hedreen at the other inside, revealed a fine passing instinct and scored the second Crimson goal at 21:30 of the first period, when he pushed the rebound of his own shot past Tufts goalie John McClintock...
...children a distinctive U (upper-class) accent, recoils in horror from the non-U patois prevalent in many state schools. Yet public schools are also so costly ($1,200 yearly at Harrow) that many U parents are switching over to state schools, particularly at the primary level. At one brand-new school near London's fashionable South Kensington, the curb is lined with Bentleys, Jaguars and nannies when classes let out each afternoon. Says one U mother: "If I can get this school's facilities for nothing, why should I pay to send my child to some school...