Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William ("Bunk") Johnson, 69, Negro jazzmaster of the cornet, last famed survivor of Buddy Bolden's New Orleans jazz band and musical ancestor of Louis ("Satch'mo") Armstrong; in New Iberia...
...friend once pointed out that the New York Senator's own life was proof that it is possible to rise from the slums (his father was a janitor for a tenement house on Manhattan's East Side). Said Wagner bitterly: "That is the most God-awful bunk. I came through it, yes. That was luck, luck, luck. Think of the others...
...smiled to himself as he adjusted the shower curtain and tested the water with his elbow. This was Thesis Day. He had noticed the red circle on his calendar as he slipped from his bunk that morning, and there was something expectant in the blue sky outside the window. Or perhaps he was expectant. He forced himself under the cold water to ready his wits for the long day ahead. He always thought better with his pores closed...
...National Guard, ordered some of it to the Mexican border. A friend reminded John that he had joined Battery A a while before and that he'd better go. "So I did, but I don't really know why. I was never able to have my bunk right or anything. I saw no action...
...clean. He never had to squeeze for a high one. But for three years after he got out of the Waif's Home (his mother got "a big white man" to spring him), he was too busy driving a coal wagon to blow a note. Then one night Bunk Johnson didn't turn up, and Louis sat in for him (for $1.25 a night) at Matranga's joint on Perdido Street; even the great Joe ("there's mah man") Oliver came around to listen...