Word: franticness
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...sporadic intra-mural games have hardly kept the R-Schoolers in top shape, and tonight's affair should get fairly frantic as action quickens...
Mulligan's kind of sound is just about unique in the jazz field: his quartet uses neither piano nor guitar, does its work with trumpet, bass, drums and, of course, Mulligan's hoarse-voiced baritone sax. In comparison with the frantic extremes of bop, his jazz is rich and even orderly, is marked by an almost Bach-like counterpoint. As in Bach, each Mulligan man is busily looking for a pause, a hole in the music which he can fill with an answering phrase. Sometimes the polyphony is reminiscent of tailgate blues, sometimes it comes tumbling with bell...
...eased when an unidentified voice, possibly a hoaxter, called to say that the power company was going to have to shut off their electricity that evening for emergency reasons. The lights stayed on, but a doctor rushed over before dinner to administer a sedative to the frantic host...
Rummage-Sales & Muddy Boots. At the first inauguration, in 1789 in New York City, someone forgot to provide a Bible for the. President's oath. George Washington had all but started to raise his right hand when a frantic messenger turned up with the Good Book (which he had found in a downtown tavern where the St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons used to hold its meetings...
After a solid week of blazing frantic headlines, Boston police discovered that they had nothing new to tell reporters working on the fantastic $1,20,000 Brink's stick-up. The head of the Criminal Investigation Bureau summoned reporters into his office, unhappily broke the fact that there was no news. The police were stymied. But he did have a parting word: the psychological effect of such a sum of money on the robbers would be too great on at least one of them. "Some day if his mind doesn't crack he may walk in here and tell...