Word: peg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cats and fine chicks, I want you to dig a mess of this jive. Because I want to hip you to my buddy-boy, Hollywood Al. He knows those fine hip styles you all like so much-that extra-wide knee 28, 29, 30 inches and that peg bottom way down to 14 inches-that are really a killer. . . . When you buy in Hollywood Al's Pants Shop you are buying from a hip cat who knows what it's all about because he's been around plenty...
...used to write asking whether Sid was colored. Actually he is slim, slick, pallid Sidney Torin, 33, brought up in Brooklyn's slums. For a year Symphony Sid lived in Harlem, acquired a full knowledge of Negro speech and habits. Today he even dresses like many Negroes, wears peg trousers (modified), a flat porkpie hat with a wide brim, knee-length camel's-hair coat, suede shoes...
...presents two cardinal points of good technique. "There are many unfamiliar concepts and new terms which we must grasp. I find it very helpful to peg down these unfamiliar ideas with ones I already know. Another trick which helps is what I call 'space studying'. This consists of working on one subject for a while, then taking up something else, and then going back to the original topic. Another period of time spent working on it is a good idea...
...incredible. In one flashing paroxysm, he catches the ball in his gloved left hand, tucks it under his right stump, shakes the glove off, grabs the ball and throws. The second or two lost in this complicated motion are made up for by Gray's powerful and accurate peg. So far this season, no errors have been chalked against...
...same operation is repeated on the other side of the arm. After the canals heal, an ivory peg is inserted in each one, and the patient practices moving these pegs with the stump muscles. Later on, a special artificial arm, made of many interacting levers and joints enclosed in leather, is fitted to the ivory pegs...