Word: misted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stacy, formerly the Goodman piano ace, now with Bob Crosby. Both sides are blues, one quite slow and the other in a faster, more clipped tempo. Slow side, like most of Jesse's blues, is strongly influences by the sort of changes that Bix Beiderbecke used in "In a Mist." The whole side is built up on variations on one or two ideas of this nature. While at times is is genuinely beautiful blues, a great deal of it is too much of an attempt to be pretty for prettiness' sake itself...
LONDON--The 10,002-ton British liner Dumbar Castle, carrying 230 passengers and crow members, was wrecked by a mine in the English Channel today while German warplanes, striking from behind a veil of mist, bombed and machine-gunned at least 14 ships in British North Sea waters, sinking three of them...
Through a thick mist one morning last week two fast trains ran close together on the line from Berlin to Cologne and Neunkirchen. Ahead was a Berlin-Cologne Christmas special, jampacked with third-class passengers. Behind was the regular Berlin-Neunkirchen express. As the Christmas special slowed down for Genthin station, near Magdeburg, the express passed a stop signal. Either the engineer did not see the signal, or its mechanism was faulty. Without slowing down, the express ploughed into the rear of the special, telescoping three flimsy third-class coaches. When rescuers had counted up the dead and injured there...