Word: ol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Craven, g; Ufford, rfb; Florin, lfb; Leonard, rhb; Harding, chb; Miller, lhb; Beger, or; Drehmel, ir; Wolf, c; Johnson, J., il; Johnson, B., ol...
...political engineer, he got Reformer Ellis Arnall elected against red-gallused old Gene Talmadge, then switched to elect Talmadge against Arnall's picked successor ("I wouldn't go along with him when he started registering all the niggers so I built up the picture for Gene"). When "Ol Gene" died, Roy engineered son Herman's attempt to snatch the governorship. He had gotten the poll tax repealed for Arnall; he got the white-supremacy primary passed for Herman...
After a noon barbecue, members of the orchestra and some of the crew of his special train banded themselves into a "Sad Symphony" of toy ukuleles, kazoos and slide whistles to play satiric take-offs on Wagner, Kabalevsky and Sousa. A waiter sang Ol' Man River and a porters' quartet turned to on Down by the Old Mill Stream, Finally, at his musicians' urging, the 83-year-old little perfectionist stood up to conduct them himself in shirtsleeves and beret. "That was a little out of tune, Maestro," grinned a trumpeter, afterward. Toscanini beamed happily: "Well...
...That kid was in the wings with his little ol, sharp self-all smiles every time I'd casualy looked over in his directions as if to say 'how 'ya doing' Gate?.... He'd give me that assurance knod as if to say -'Man' everything's under control... And beleive me it was... When Ray finished singing Stormy Weather with us pushing him in that fine soft slow style -Ump -he had to take five bows. So you see-music is music and a note's a note-in any language...
...signorine looked good to the infantrymen, and the infantrymen looked good to the signorine. "Men!" cried one lusty widow as she "smoothed the dress down over her body and stepped out of her house onto the pavement." In their own way, the British were equally enthusiastic : "This ol' street may niff a bit, but it don't smell as bad as . . . those unburied dead rottin' out there in the sun . . . Some of these judies aren't bad lookers." Before the week was out, many of the company had made themselves right at home. They dandled bambini...