Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told his colleagues that he had written a book giving his reasons for objecting.* After that, North Dakota's Republican Senator William Langer reared up to announce that the whole United Nations setup was a square peg in a round hole, a phony and a lot of bunk...
...Chicagoans: Trombonist Milfred ("Miff") Mole, Cornetist Francis Xavier ("Muggsy") Spanier, who play a half mile away, at Nick's in the Village-where Condon played until about two years ago. (Twelve blocks away, Manhattanites could hear the far more virile and exciting New Orleans Negro jazz of Cornetist Bunk Johnson-TIME, Nov. 5.) Some of Nick's parishioners were scattered among Condon's opening-night audience, lost among the celebrities and the Hoosiers. "You know, Hoosiers," explained Condon, himself the ninth child of an Indiana saloonkeeper: "the Paramount-once-a-week, glass-top-bus crowd. They stick...
...think it is bunk-which does not mean that the complaint may not be partly sincere. The Russians fancy themselves as conquerors. Among their Allies in Tokyo they shoulder their way in and seize every opportunity to throw their weight around. Their own idea of victory, as revealed in areas where they are in occupation, is to make blunt demands at the point of a gun. But their method is not necessarily tougher or more effective than MacArthur's. He is using a policy much admired by Adolf Hitler, who was hardly a softie: making a demand which...
Together, without rehearsals, they go through a nightly repertory of about 20 old pieces, along with an occasional unfortunate stab at such contemporary favorites as Bell Bottom Trousers. If the audience-or the band itself-likes a number, Bunk plays it again, sometimes a third time, each version entirely different. Bunk calls their style of playing ragtime ("they call it jazz, swing, they change the name. It's ragtime...
Last week the two white jazz aficionados who brought Bunk to Manhattan (and have barely broken even on their investment) rented the hall for six weeks. Bunk signed a recording contract with Decca. Bunk Johnson, at 65, was apparently about to discover that there was money in his music-whatever the longhairs wanted to call...