Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jazz band blew a final chord and then drifted from the stand for an intermission smoke. As the jump fans settled down to their beers, a stooped and droopy-eyed old Negro clambered up to the piano behind the chromium bar. He began a rolling boogie bass -not fast and tinny like most boogie, but low and underneath the deep, dark blues his right hand played. He played softly, staring out into the blue smoke as if he didn't care whether anyone listened. Not everyone did. But the oldtimers around Chicago's South Side knew that Jimmy...
Rather unfortunately, too, the show puts its best foot forward too fast: its best dance and its one good ditty come in the first 15 minutes. After a wonderfully lively dance sequence opening, Comedienne Walker bawls out the sad saga of a little nobody-much...
Parcels & Patience. This attitude changed later. The first time Renault was picked up, with his pockets bulging with dispatches, he talked so fast and furiously that his slow-witted examiner gave up and let him go without even searching him. After his network had been sending out messages for several months, the Gestapo located one of his transmitters. Instead of keeping it under observation they arrested the operator at once. This, he says, was typical. "Their haste to make a single arrest, when in most cases . . . patience in watching the man would have brought in a good haul...
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Making effective use of the fast break and a decided height advantage, the yearling basketball team had little trouble in turning back Penn Charter, 49 to 30, at the Indoor Athletic Building. Earlier, the '51 wrestlers had beaten Exeter, 18 to 11, as all but one Yardling either defeated or drew his rival...