Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mahogany Hall, reminiscent of the New Orleans "barrelhouses" where they poured liquor from barrels, is strictly a weekend stop. Its usual attraction, the Dukes of Dixie, often described as a "great big bundle of noise", offer the Chicago type of jam session in a room filled with plenty of smoke and customers trying to prove they are not freshmen...
...Hall. Adenauer sat in the center, flanked by Bulganin and Khrushchev. The three men talked heatedly, emphasizing their points with gestures. At one point, Party Boss Khrushchev leaned across the German Chancellor and gabbed furiously at Bulganin. Then, in two quiet sentences, the Soviet Premier broke the log jam...
Having been grounded six months last year for buzzing the Teterboro, N.J. Airport control tower, TV's humbly arrogant Arthur Godfrey buzzed himself into another jam with the Civil Aeronautics Administration. The charge: flying so close to an airliner over Chicago's Midway Airport that he forced the plane to reduce its speed. "Oh, for Christ's sake," cried Godfrey. "We certainly weren't endangering him. I merely dipped my wing to say hello. It's like tipping your hat. How close could I have been, if the pilot had to call the tower...
Suggested the first: "A jam of tarts?" The second: "A flourish of strumpets?" The third: "An essay of Trollope's?" Then the dean of the dons, the eldest and most scholarly of them all, closed the discussion: "I wish that you gentlemen would consider 'An anthology of pros...
...paid $22,500 for Belcourt, the enormous, run-down pile of the late O.H.P. Belmont, and announced that this was where things would jump during the festival's three days. At this the neighbors set up a well-modulated howl and complained to the city fathers. Eventual compromise: jam sessions in the city-owned ballfield, Freebody Park (seating 11,800), lectures by hipsters ("Jazz from the Inside Looking Out") and social scientists ("Jazz from the Outside Looking In") to be held during two afternoons at Belcourt...