Word: cocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest Senator there was a little bantam-built man with a crabwise walk, a cock-crest of white hair, a mouth that seems to snarl even when he weeps-the Old Dominion fireball, Carter Glass, 82, of Lynchburg...
There are three Tennessees. There is East Tennessee, the home of shrewd mountain traders, Republicans, the Great Smokies, Knoxville and the TVA. There is Middle Tennessee, the Cumberland plateau, a land of bluegrass, rich farms, horsey squires (who keep a fighting-cock in the tobacco barn), of Nashville, "Athens of the South." There is cotton-growing West Tennessee, flatland of "red-necks," of Memphis, and Beale Street, Mistuh Ed Crump and the Mississippi...
...world affairs, U. S. radio's "find" of 1939. Some radio programs listed him under Dance Music, as "Raymond Gram, swing!" But last week Variety voted Raymond Gram Swing the leading "attention-getter" among news analysts and commentators in 1939. In U. S. homes great & humble millions cock respectful ears when Raymond Gram Swing comes on, five nights a week. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter is a Swing fan. So are Nicholas Murray Butler, British Ambassador Lord Lothian, Tallulah Bankhead. In England he is credited with being heard by an incredible 30.7% of the adult population whenever he comes...