Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ready for another early date and would like to receive a clear answer," he wrote. "I would like the earliest reply to this message, Mr. President...
This was a truculent spirit headed for war. When war came in 1917, he was among the first to enlist, one of the earliest transfers to the Army Signal Corps' budding air arm. After that, there was no turning for him. "I have tasted of the air," he wrote his father, "and I cannot get it out of my craw...
...Lion Roars (Willie "The Lion" Smith; Dot). In an interview with Critic Leonard Feather, Harlem's most-storied stride pianist rambles through some richly colored reminiscences about the good, bold days of jazz. (Willie's earliest jazz school: the brickyards of Haverstraw, N.Y.). The Lion roars too much and plays too little, but a couple of his own compositions-Echo of Spring, with its lacy embroidery over a rolling bass, and Zig-Zag, with its propulsive drive-are worth the price of the album...
...seven. Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian got a Turkish five-shilling piece as a present and promptly rushed to the bazaar with it to buy an old coin. The boy's father unprophetically chided Calouste on his earliest recorded financial deal: "If that's the way you're going to use your money, you'll end up in the gutter...
...early spring's foul weather; employment in manufacturing, the economy's soft spot, actually declined again in May. And Capitol Hill's bearish Joint Economic Committee predicted last week that the economy will not get back its full pre-recession robustness until mid-1959 at the earliest, and possibly not until late...