Word: bum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finger on many another A.F. of L. figure: Jake ("The Bum") Wellner, business agent of the Brooklyn painters; Sam Kaplan, on the executive board of Local No. 306, New York Motion-Picture Machine Operators; John J. Dempsey, international treasurer of the ironworkers. Though a little brown around the edges, their careers have not been blighted. President Green has shouted "We disavow racketeering, gangsterism, and disregard for law most emphatically and without reservation"-but they still have their jobs...
...Bum (England...
Police could guess what the trio had been after at the N.Y.A.C. Room 1903 was one of a suite occupied by Frank Erickson, reputed to be New York's wealthiest bookmaker, said by Mayor LaGuardia to be a "bum." A zipper bag which the gunmen had left behind them held black masks, wire, cord, wads of cotton-elaborate paraphernalia for a holdup...
...glad to say, will go out of their way to avoid the imitative, elaborately tasteless style which has bogged down too many of our more promising keyboard artists. This goes for Rupe especially. He can't read a note of music, and he's such a lazy bum that I doubt if he'll ever bother to learn. However, what counts is the fact that he's endowed with an innate sense of chord structure that permits him to give full play to his musical ideas. He's got a style that's delicate without being saccharine, and imaginative without...
...actually doesn't sing very much better than you or I, the only difference being a pleasantly mellow voice and the fact that he knows the words to the tunes. For whenever I hear him on a record, I can't help thinking of a sort of easygoing bum walking down a side street, leisurely kicking at stones in the road, occasionally running a stick along a picket fence for a machine-gun effect, and now and then humming snatches of some-silly tune that he happens to like. It's as if he chanced to be walking...