Word: outdo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...releases, Hodes' piano is fortunately within reach of everyone's ear, and definitely worth the listening time of two records. With a rhythm section of Zutty Singleton, drums, Eddie Condon, banjo, and Earl Murphy, bass, the band achieves a colossal beat, especially on "Indiana." On "Georgia Cake Walk" they outdo the Yerba Buena band in the latter's own territory...
Some readers may wonder whether Abner's conduct can properly be described as The Sound of an American. World-Telegram Reviewer Harry Hansen said that the book "pounds home that you can't write a decent novel when you are trying to outdo your competitors in vulgarity. The only sound of an American that I could discern . . . was the razzberry...
This fall, unwisely enough, the Club decided to go on with its compromise policy and even to outdo itself with a play of the Hasty Pudidg Club type. Not until after they had started rehearsals on their choice, Christopher Morley's "The Trojan Horse," did they think to consult their Faculty advisers. One of their three mentors, Professor Theodore Spencer, firmly put his foot down on the production of the show, terming it "trash...
...unmercifully kidding him and his folding armies. He looked very bald and worn and old. But now he had a chance to stand beside his good friend, the world's most fearsome citizen, on the Russian Front. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt had talked for three days. To outdo their enemies Benito listened to Adolf for five...
...just to hear the Basie musicale without engaging in any female entanglements, as well as the avowed wolves who inevitably infest such soirees. The Count may no longer be the wild and woolly nobleman he was in the days when Herschal Evans and Lester Young were attempting to outdo each other on the tenor saxophone, but he still packs more punch than any band that has reared its head around here this spring. Therefore, all things considered, Cue's reviewer says "Gird up your five bucks and your woman...