Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who feel that 1917 saw zenith of recorded jazz will be pleased to hear that a member of the original Dixieland Jazz Band, one Tony Spargo (ne Sparbaro) has drunk the fountain of youth and gleaned strength enough therefrom to make another record. The anachronistic session took place under the auspices of the Swan Record Company and the songs "Sister Kate" and "I'll Never Be The Same" were played. Supported by another refugee from the mothballs, Phil Napolean, a cornetist who used to tootle feebly with Miff Mole and the rest of the Memphis Five, Tony whistles, sings...
Members of the Class of 1946 are finally to get a chance to fill out the traditional Album poll and speak their minds on whether they like their instructors young or old, drunk or sober, and whether they prefer their dates to be of the free and easy type or of the bespectacled Widener variety. The Poll will be distributed today in the Registration line, and will also be mailed to absent '46ers...
...early days the Castle's great rooms were jammed with beds into which the last drunk fell at about 4 a.m. and from which the first wire-association man crawled out about 6. The old buildings were never warm; the men shivered their way out to waiting buses for the five-mile ride to the courthouse. After each session, workrooms were jammed with men screaming into phones in a dozen languages, trying to get London, Brussels, Moscow...
...numbers for the gifts. Last week the 156-year-old war was over. To General Rondon, now 82 and in Rio, the leader of the mission had wired: "I take great satisfaction in communicating to you news of the first amicable meeting with the Chavante Indians. . . ." Toasts had been drunk and some 400 Indians had offered presents in return -great spears with blunt tips. Said the General: "This is the victory of patience suffering and love...
John Johnson had been a soldier in Europe, but in Minden the whites had figured he was a "bad nigger"; he got drunk and was uppity. Three weeks ago, a white woman said she saw him and a young Negro named Albert Harris trying to get into her house."She shined a light and they ran away. The sheriff picked them up and took them to the red brick Webster Parish jail. Along about dusk a couple of nights' later he let them go because nobody had filed any charges against them...