Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-known to Franklin Roosevelt, who slept and fished and yarned last week aboard the cruiser Tuscaloosa in Cocos' Chatham Bay, with the radioed permission of Costa Rica's President León Cortés Castro. On his fourth visit* to the peaceful blue waters that lick Cocos' shores the President was still only after fish; still had only meagre fisherman's luck. Back in Panama the natives were swearing by the Roosevelt luck (he arrived on Feb. 18; No. 18 turned up in the lottery); out in the Pacific he was most likely swearing...
First of all, the tune originated at the Savoy in New York where it was used as a run-off lick--that meaning the phrase used to warn customers that the particular set of tunes is over and to warn the band to come back on the stand. Hawkins took the thing, patterned it after some of the old Lunceford originals and recorded it for Bluebird...
Seen through blurred eyes, his reflected image was in a constant flux of alternate expansion and contraction. Do what he would, one lick of hair insisted on standing straight up in the air, and the knot in his tie would never assume the proper Mount Auburn Street air. Completely overwhelmed by this terrifying mechanical monster, he was incapable of simulating any form of non-chalance--the all-essential part of the successful Harvard...
...There were the nameless dead-of catastrophe, foul air, killing hours in the mines; murdered by company thugs; murdered, too, by union gangs whose internecine wars reddened the rise of U. M. W. A. and John Lewis. And at home last week in Glenalum, Sarah Ann and Carbondale, Black Lick and Conemaugh, in coal towns from Nova Scotia to Alabama, were the 600,000* members...
...part of their lives in conservatories of music, where they learn to write potted fugues and hothouse symphonies. But no conservatory ever held Brazil's bouncing, fiery Heitor Villa-Lobos. When he was six years old his lawyer father, an amateur musician, taught him how to play a lick or two on the cello. He taught himself how to play the piano. By the time he was 19 he was roving from one Brazilian settlement to another, playing in half-caste cabarets and straw-thatched cinema palaces. And he listened long and often to the jungly songs of Brazil...