Word: flyin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...song, but Transfusion sold half a million records in two weeks, is now inching toward the million mark. As Nervous Norvus ("I invented Nervous; I'm the cat that invented that"), Drake found himself famous. He has since produced another hit called Ape Call. "The pterodactyl was a flyin' fool, a breeze-flappin' Daddy of the o-o-ld school." He expects to make around $65,000 this year, but he has an anchor to windward. "The boss told me I can always get my job back with that cool trucking company," he says. "Now wasn...
...Creekers live in odd isolation from the rest of the U.S., invoke the King James version of the Good Book in rough-hewn English, react to such intrusions as World War II by sending their young men off to fight, not knowingly but instinctively, like "the old mother hen flyin at the chicken hawk that comes swoopin down...
Dance of Doubts. The lone dark horse, unknown to the Eastern newspapers until his dramatic flight across the continent, found himself an overnight favorite with the tabloids. "Slim" or Captain Lindbergh to his St. Louis backers, he is dubbed the "Flyin' Fool." Photographers crash his hotel room at Garden City, L.I. for pictures of "Lindy" shaving, Lindy in pajamas. When reporters quiz his mother on how she feels about the suicidal risks of the flight, Lindbergh flares into a sharp resentment of the press which he never lost. With his plane grounded by storms on the Atlantic, doubts begin...