Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this light, your quotation of Louis Armstrong's famous reply to the man who asked him to define [New Orleans] jazz, "Man, when you got to ask what is it, you'll never get to know," appears as a beautiful and proper non-Aristotelian rebuke to an asker of Aristotelian nonsense-question. What is jazz, indeed...
Coming when they did, the President's remarks floored even loyal Administration leaders. As for the Republicans, many of them decided that in the light of what Harry Truman had said, they were ready at last to agree with the Southerners. The Southerners had been saying right along that any change in the present cloture rule would open the way for further attacks on the long-cherished right to talk in the Senate as long as voice and kidneys held out. Republican enthusiasm for the anti-filibuster fight, never great, dwindled...
...black cigar, Satchmo began his triumphal tour at 9 in the morning. Rumbled gravel-voiced Louis as he settled himself on the throne on his gilded float: "Man, this is rich." The parade stopped before the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, and the royal party dismounted for a light lunch of turkey and ham sandwiches, pickles, olives and champagne. By the time Satch had clambered back on to the float and settled down with three bottles of champagne at his feet, he felt moved to announce: "This king stuff is fine, real fine. It's knocking...
...local country-club greens are going to be green again, and the recent mobs of skiers will metamorphize into knickered golfers, for it is the season when "every clod feels a stir of might, an instinct within it that reaches and towers, groping blindly above for light...
Peroy also announced last night that the team hoped to buy an electric epee next year. The epee rings a bell and flashes a light when a touch is scored...