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...Slide Rule Symphony was the hit of the program. Ragtime Russell Tatum played the sax, Gut-bucket Githens played the clarinet, Phil LeCorbeiller slapped the dog-house, and Harry the Horse Stockman beat it out on the drums. Stockman beat it out on the drums. Stockman banged his cymbals in the best dead-pan style, but Tex Tatum nearly blew his eyes out. The rhythm really...
When the great week came, the banks of the Isis from Folly Bridge to The Gut (a tricky S bend where crews first appear to the majority of spectators) were dizzy with excitement. On the Oxford side of the river, the college barges were a crush of gay parasols, gaudy blazers, tinkling tea cups, squeaking gramophones. On the other side, coaches, undergraduates, townsfolk and dogs flocked along the towpath -some on bicycle, some afoot - keeping abreast of their favorite boat. Coaches shouted through megaphones; others yelled, rattled rattles, tooted horns, fired blank cartridges. Many a cyclist in his heedless excitement...
...newspapers. The London Times published the daily bumps in chart form that, to the uninitiated, looked like sabotage in a wire factory. Each bump was minutely described, with a recording of the exact spot where it occurred-such as Haystack Corners, Free Ferry, The Willows or The Gut -instead of fractional times or distances. Not uncommon were such headlines as "Jesus bumped St. John's at The Gut...
...reservoir of international good will which the United States already enjoys; hence he vituperates the Tunisian-dead. Impracticality might be charged, but it is at least a healthy impracticality. A more serious irrationalism occurs when he attempts to represent the Republican Party as equally internationalist as the Democratic Party; gut the vital statistics of Congressional balloting should show such a statement to be an indulgence of wishful thinking. Mr. Willkie's Republican colleagues are mostly sterile or poisonous so far as international thinking is involved. Nevertheless, Willkie's breadth of thought may influence the G. O. P. to a greater...
Wolfe filled his letters with the artist's theme song - the need of money, and the hatred of it. His only extravagance was satisfying his huge appetite, his "ravening gut." "I have a big body, and a devouring mind which will never let me rest. . . . And when that mind has worked a few hours on books, papers, creation- it calls for a different sort of food- meat, potatoes...