Word: feathering
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Something happy will happen today, Something to cherish at close of day, Some tenderness in unexpected faces, Some atomic thing to feather my spirit's wing...
...Jazz Critic Leonard Feather...
...dark, wispy little man with the high forehead and the doe-brown eyes raised his hands. Softly he blew into the instrument half-hidden between his palms. He could no more describe the magic than could his friend Feather, after seeing a similar performance almost 20 years ago. There was no need. Haunting as a train whistle at midnight, evocative as a gutbucket trumpet, as clean as a bank of violins, the music made by Harmonicist Larry Adler, 45, transformed the tawdry basement nightclub. For a little while last week, the bandstand at San Francisco's "hungry i" nightclub...
...accused Ralph Bunche, now a candidate for the Board of Overseers, of "advancing again and again over the last 23 years the Communist party line." Recalling the aphorism that "birds of a feather flock together," Bunker said Bunche was "one of the small handful of persons who initiated and organized the National Negro Congress,...a carefully planned maneuver of the Kremlin...
...scramble has come a golden chance for British newswomen to feather their nests as never before. Old hands for new jobs: chic, leggy (5 ft. 111n., 130 Ibs.) Anne Scott-James, 44, who left the Sunday Dispatch fortnight ago to fill the specially created post of adviser to the Beaverbrook empire (four papers with a total circulation of more than 8,000,000); buxom, blonde Eileen Ascroft, forty-sixish, who will leave Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in April to primp up the score of dowdy women's magazines that Press Lord Cecil King (the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial...