Word: dearâ
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...outside the mainstream, playing a lean, dissonant, unresolved jazz that most players found perilously difficult to accompany. Many musicians resented him, and he quickly lost his grip on steady jobs. Alone in his room, where he had composed his earliest music?'Round Midnight, Well, You Needn't, Ruby, My Dear???he worked or simply stared at the picture of Billie Holiday tacked to his ceiling...
...more easily translated morceaux choisis is a list of mourners whom the ex-President has requested to attend his funeral: "Jean, Millerand's son; the Unknown Soldier; Maman Canti [canti, name given to profiteering junk-dealers]; Mme. Vichère [composed of vie, life, chère, dear???high cost of living] ; l'Abbesse du Franc [Abbesse means abbess, but it is here a play on the English word abyss; hence, the abyss of the franc, an allusion to the franc's tremendous fall in the Spring (TIME, Mar. 17) when Millerand was President...
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