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Word: miltonic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midweek, the U.S. jazzbos - Satchmo, Stewart and Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrow - had won the wildest ovations. By comparison, the polite jazz of the Swiss, the Belgians (who went in for bebop) and the British got only polite applause. But the festival's local wonder was an un known young (24) French clarinetist named Claude Luter. When Claude blew out Canal Street Blues and High Society and one of his own called Abouche, sentimental Drummer Baby Dodds (whose late brother Johnny played clarinet with King Oliver) said tearfully: "That kid is terrific. I'd almost think Johnny was playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nice Jumps | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Andre Sigourney will lay a string of victories three years long on the mats against Yale this Saturday. The sturdy captain of the Yardling wrestlers, New England 155 pound champion in 1945 at Milton, returned from Marine Corps duty in China tougher than ever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captains Pace Yard Squads As Yale Finales Loom Close | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

Author Boyle and her characters wrestle these slender materials with an intensity that would seem supererogatory in Dante or Milton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intensity in the Alps | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Romeo, his voice shaky with emotion, breathed into the microphone: "By yawnder blessed moon I swear. . . ." What was Milton Berle doing under that balcony? He was acting Romeo and Juliet. And it was no gag. The new show, Play It Straight (on Manhattan's WNEW), would give radio's funnymen a chance to indulge their traditional and unsinkable ambition to play Hamlet-or any other long-faced role they fancied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Busy Air, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Information Please (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Guests: Cartoonists Milton Caniff and Al Capp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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