Word: eras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pressings of two Kid Ory discs (Creole Song; South, Get Out of Here; Blues for Jimmy) were sold out soon after the release. They were made in Los Angeles with the help of an authentic Dixieland ensemble-including Trumpeter Edward ("Mutt") Carey, who weathered the sweet-arrangement era as a Pullman porter. The recordings, a mixture of Congo barrelhouse and Creole sauce, are probably as close as anything ever put on wax to the spirit of old Storyville, New Orleans' once-gaudy bawdyhouse district...
...first world war was the partial suicide for the western nations," Embree declared. "This war is the beginning of a new era," he concluded, in stressing the numerical superiority of the world's colored peoples and the need for better understanding between different racial groups...
...Washington next day, Dr. Winfred Overholser, head of St. Elizabeth's federal mental hospital, predicted an era of loose living beyond anything seen in the "Jazz Age" of Postwar I. He declared: "The loosening of morals started after the last war has continued ever since, and is reaching a new high, as evidenced by the soaring tide in illegitimacy...
...friends, that my family would be injured. . . . We're all well and happy." Friends showed "wonderful loyalty.") The Journal paid Miss Smith $100 for the article, the princeliest sum Editor Angus Perkerson has forked out in 32 years. Editor Perkerson hopes that in the new, freer-spending era his old nickname will be forgotten: because of his reluctance to spend the paper's money, he has long been called "Anguish...
...Japanese, who call this era Showa ("Enlightened Peace"), the immediate prospect promised more enlightenment than peace...