Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ragtime Jimmy" played in the classic razzmatazz style- heavy chording in the bass and light finagling in the treble-of which he is still in perfect possession. He worked in a motley of joints, including Chinatown's Chatham Club. Around 1916 Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner...
...these pictures were perfect in anatomical detail, because 28-year-old Miss Stilwell is one of the top medical artists in the U.S. (there are only about 50 U.S. medical artists, all told...
...years Frank C. Walker's Post Office Department has had a perfect batting average against magazines it cited, or simply scanned, as obscene: 23 cited; 39 put to the purity test; 62 second-class mail (cheaper rate) privileges revoked or denied. Last week sharp-nosed Postmaster General Walker, setting himself up as the No. 1 judge of what the U.S. public should read and of what it should be denied, personally turned thumbs down on Esquire...
Battle & Retreat. Early in the week a U.S. Liberator bomber on ocean patrol had spotted the blockade runner. The ship must have been of immense value to the Germans; eleven destroyers put out from French bases to meet and escort it to port. The resultant fight involved a perfect cross-section of Allied operations: British warships and U.S., British, Canadian and Czechoslovak airmen. Aircraft dogged the incoming ship relentlessly; a Liberator manned by Czech airmen bombed it and left it sinking. By this time the German destroyers, some 200 miles to the east, had ventured too far. Next morning they...
...Over 45,000,000 tons of coal-less than 5% under last year, when the weather was nearly perfect...