Word: bunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dodge City's Deputy Marshal Bat Masterson, who, the story goes, got up one morning on the wrong side of the bunk. He stepped outside, swaggered down the street, shot & killed the first man he met. His explanation: "I just felt like...
Small Alarm. In Charlestown, Mass., when a fire trapped Mr. & Mrs. Michael McCarthy in their third-floor bedroom, he pitched an alarm clock through the bunk-room window of a firehouse 40 feet away to arouse firemen...
...labeled talk of smears and witch-hunting as a "lot of bunk...
...Bunk Johnson (Columbia LP). The last professional engagement played by the late New Orleans trumpeter, who once showed some hot licks to a kid cor-nettist named Louis Armstrong. With six longtime jazzmen of Bunk's own choosing, he plays a free & easy program of twelve tunes, e.g., Chloe, Some of These Days, Out of Nowhere, in his simple but highly polished style. There are a few quaint runs and riffs straight out of turn-of-the-century New Orleans, but every number has the glow of on-the-spot invention...
...Administration, said Eisenhower, thinks that "all that is necessary to keep [the South] in the bag is a paternalistic-pat on the head once every four years . . . [and] its low admonition that all the South's blessings flow from Washington. You know and I know that is plain bunk." Again & again he ridiculed the Administration's picture of the "fairy godfather in Washington," attacked "Washington powermongers" and "Administration arrogance toward the South...