Word: dig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nights. The band was seated on a slowly revolving stage in the center of the arena, and for a full hour of each show, Satchmo lined out incredibly energetic solos, sang and cracked jokes in his pebbly voice. The crowd went wild. "The cats sound the same and they dig the same," he growled. "It's like that all over the world...
...with him in a dank stone cottage in a lonely gorge in the hills east of Rome. Father Picchioni was an itinerant olive-picker, chicken thief, and loud-mouthed braggart who was first a Fascist, later a Communist. Always roaring at his wife and children, he once made them dig a long family grave in the backyard so that "it will be ready when I want...
...thinks that he'd like to visit Montreal. As he says, "I'd sure like to make that scene." Here in Cambridge he studies in the daytime, "but this place really isn't conducive to study," Gene maintains. "It sort of makes you want to sit back and dig the music...
...other hand, doesn't seem to dig the music so much. She looks for the funny people who come to visit with her friends and her coffee. Latterly, a swarthy young man who is known among intimates as "The Butcher" and who smokes cigarillos has made the scene and helps Pat wait on her humble customers. Pat really doesn't resent the public's comment on her pretty dresses and lengthy eye-lashes because she knows that nobody really takes that sort of thing seriously. Pat says she was from Michigan before she was from Europe, and The Butcher reportedly...
...Before we opened this place," he continues, "the only person we knew in Cambridge practically was Pat. Now we know everybody, and Gene and I aren't sure we dig it. Oh, sure, I guess we do," Dave retracts on reflection and after a quick nod to Gene across the gilded plywood table...