Word: neveral
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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...
...played Chicago, listening musicians did their listening, "worshipfully." Among those mentioned was Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke . . . One night at the Plantation Cafe on Chicago's South Side, Armstrong and Beiderbecke were having a battle of the horns. When Louis heard Bix, he broke into tears and admitted he could never play as well...
...Strapped Democrats. On the last score, at least, no one could criticize the qualification of Secretary-to-be Louis Johnson, whose appointment had made the most powerful job in the Cabinet one of the spoils of politics. A lifelong Democrat, he had never wavered through years of being passed by. Balked of one promised gift when Franklin Roosevelt reached over his head to make Republican Henry Stimson Secretary of War, balked again when Henry Wallace got the White House blessing for Vice President in 1940, Johnson stayed in there, ready to pitch for the party when he was called from...
...hung out his law shingle in Clarksburg, W. Va. 37 years ago. At 26 he was the Democratic majority floor leader of the West Virginia House of Delegates. He returned from World War I as an infantry captain, soon became a $40,000-a-year corporation lawyer. But he never strayed far from politics...
Coach Rene Peroy doesn't know a thing about Amherst's fencing team, but he isn't expecting much trouble when it duels his varsity swordsmen at 3 p.m. today in the Blockhouse. The Lord Jeffs have never been a power in Eastern fencing competition...