Word: guess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Glow (Carmen McRae; Decca LP). Songstress McRae gives a torchy, slickly phrased reading to such old standbys as Nice Work If You Can Get It and My Funny Valentine, and less familiar numbers, e.g., Guess Who I Saw Today? The voice is too anemic for the big, strutting talk, but just right for the languorous, blues-flavored chitchat of a girl who has been there before...
...participated in countless similar dialogues. His old friend would say "Hi, Vag. Say, where are you going to school now?" And Vag would answer "Harvard." "What are you studying there?" Old Friend would ask. "Oh, I'm a liberal arts student," Vag would reply. "I guess you might say I'm sort of a history major...
...friend greeted. "Say, where are you going to school now?" "Harvard," Vag answered uncomfortably. "What are you studying there?" Friend continued. "I'm a liberal arts student," Vag replied. "I guess you might say I'm sort of a history major." "Oh. Going to be a teacher, eh?" Friend continued. "No," Vag sighed. "Not necessarily. I don't really know what I'm going to be." And with that he walked away...
...past, but Gordon Cairnie refuses to sell. More recently, he attracted some magazine publicity. "I got two letters from that article," he told me. "One was from a lady who makes hummingbird houses and the other was from a fellow who runs a book shop like mine. I guess he was just glad to find out there was somebody else like him in the world...
...Yeah, I guess...