Word: fallin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aside him and, says I, 'Mister, will you have a few draps?' He blowed an awful sigh, and says he, 'This is a wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned up his eyes, and said...
...composer (TIME, Aug. 9); of bronchopneumonia; in Kansas City. A Harlem pastor's son, portly, powerful, 2/o-lb. Fats Waller wrote such jazz classics as Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', My Fate Is in Your Hands, I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin'. He once defined swing (for a serious young woman): "Lady...
...cooked up some good ones before. Among them: Ain't Misbehavin', I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin', Keepin' Out of Mischief Now. Waller has collaborated with many a lyricist. Some of his best results he turned out with Andy Razaf, his favorite poet next to Longfellow.* During one rewarding session in retreat at Anbury Park, N.J., the two men turned out Zonky, My Fate Is in Your Hands and Honeysuckle Rose in two hours. Razaf had enticed Waller into his mother's Asbury Park home for a productive session away...