Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, pretty Miss Mary Grace Simescu, queen of the Automotive Golden Jubilee, sneaked out of her parents' house before dawn, met a handsome ex-Navy flier named Clifton W. Woodry, eloped with him. The parents were pleased but slightly bewildered. She had been engaged to him all the time...
...Francisco, the fans gather in the dark Dawn Club, in an Annie Street cellar, to hear the unmuted two-beat Dixieland rhythms of a band that is neither Negro nor old. The eight musicians of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band average 30 years in age, but they serve such standbys as Ostrich Walk and High Society, along with new ones of their own New Orleans style. The college students, sailors, socialites and nostalgic oldtimers who pack the joint don't come to sit and listen. Their dancing rocks the floor like an old-fashioned firemen...
...King Oliver's Band, Jelly Roll's "Red Hot Peppers" and Armstrong's "Hot Five." After hours Lu took some of the boys to a roadhouse in the hills back of Oakland, where they tried out the hoedowns, marches and blues of old New Orleans until dawn. By 1939 Waiters had his own twelve-piece band, playing the accepted mixture of sweet and swing. Soon they gave up playing regular ballroom dates. Says Walters: "It was ruining my lip, having to play soft. I wanted a jazz band or nothing...
Deep in the oak and pine timberlands of the Southwest, a headsaw whined through the soft June night. Now & again the hooting of horned owls broke into the steady cough of the gasoline engine, the dull banging of the sawmill carriage, the slap, slap of cut slabs. At dawn, the fireflies and the old crew left the sawmill and the day gang took over...
There was the customary pre-dawn prelude of machine-gun and mortar fire. Then troops from the capital garrison at Asunción moved in. In no time at all, as revolutions go, Army strongman Lieut. Colonel Benítez Vera had fled from his Campo Grande headquarters. Box score: five killed, scores wounded. By noon, as the official communiqué said, "absolute tranquillity" again reigned over Paraguay...