Word: growls
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Either for the Franco-German record or because of the resentment lingering from Oran, this tacit invitation was received with a surly growl by Vichy. Said Minister of Colonies Rear Admiral René Platon: "Despite British assurances that these countries were to be handed back to us, I am convinced Britain wanted to appropriate our colonies as a sort of barter instrument in the event a compromise peace was offered them...
Some noisy fish, Interior vows, make a sound like a click beetle just by snapping their heads sharply upward. At night off the Florida coast sea drums parade, crying "wop, wop, wop." Meagres sometimes sound like a hurdy-gurdy. You can hear a South American catfish "growl" for a hundred feet when he breaks water. Even Homer's fabled song of the sirens is fishy to Interior: it was probably just a shoal of weakfish warbling their weed notes wild...
...really kicks. Scoring of brass against reed passages reminiscent of the famous chase chorus on Stealin' Apples. Benny's clarinet stars here. The other coupling is by the Sextet, and gives the soloists more opportunity to get off. Tunes are Royal Garden Blues and Wholly Cats. Cootie Williams' muted growl horn stars on Royal Garden, but the outstanding thing about the record is the rhythm section, which is second only to the Count's. As a matter of fact, Basic plays piano here, and shares honors with Artic Bernstein (bass), Charley Christians (electric guitar) and Harry Jaeger (drums). Wholly Cats...
...Growl and Grumbles. Churchill's growl still set the keynote of his people's temper. He still rode high in their affections as war leader, but there was also a grumble, which CBS Broadcaster Edward (christened Egbert) Murrow defined as coming from caste-conscious Britons who were beginning to realize that "all are equal under the bomb...
...years ago, he paused to listen to a soapbox orator in full cry under a huge cross set up in Manhattan's Columbus Circle. Some of the things the rabble-rouser spouted as "Catholic" doctrine burned Harry up. "I was in Jesuit schools twelve years," he growled, "and I never heard stuff like that." He began to growl louder. The speaker kicked at him. That was a mistake. Two-hundred-and-twenty-five-pound Harry Dalton caught the speaker's foot, yanked him from the stand. Then Harry Dalton took his place, delivered a 20-minute opinion...