Word: mutes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walter Millis described it, America's trip down the road to World War I was something like a blind deaf-mute's stumbling down a dark country lane on a foggy night. So far, our policy in the present European war has been just as dim and uncertain. There have been a few specific actions on the part of the Roosevelt Administration, but no one knows just what basic policy is behind them. If the 1940 campaign doesn't throw light on the situation, it will be just about impossible to vote intelligently...
...Neither mute nor inglorious was the Younger Milton. A mountainous figure of a man, with a boy's face and a scholar's brain, he was more interested in politics than in daily journalism. He wrote books (The Age of Hate, The Eve of Conflict), contributed to leftist magazines like The Nation and The New Republic, lectured, presided over round-table discussions, was chairman of a Southern committee to study lynching. Long an admirer of Nebraska's Senator George Norris, Milton plugged for the Tennessee Valley Authority when it was no more than a Utopian gleam...
...policing the conquered country belongs to the Elite Guard's Death's Head Brigade, S. S. men whose main job heretofore has been to run concentration camps in Germany. The obituary notices of the S. S. newsorgan Das Schwarze Korps bear mute testimony that hundreds of these Germans have been picked off by Polish snipers. Reprisals have taken the form of wholesale executions of Poles...
...take a look at the men in his band: Rex Stewart on trumpet is considered one of the greatest--Goodman copied his "Boy Meets Horn." Cootie Williams (trumpet) is the only guy I've ever heard who could really do things with a mute. "Echoes of Harlem" is a good example. Juan Tizol is probably one of the most unusual trombone men in the world. His solos, done on valve trombone, on such things as "Pyramid" are classics. Lawrence Brown and Joe Naughton are both great. Listen to the former's "Rose of the Rio Grande." The sax section...