Word: play-by-play
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...interest mainly to aficionados of America's native rhythm, the Goodman biography provides a play-by-play account of the only jazz artist who, without once compromising with tinhorn commercialism, battled his way up from tootling in a synagogue to running his own band. The book also functions as a sort of Who's Who in hot music. In his 20 years in the business, Goodman has worked with or heard and known all the best players...
...Ashford's 48 voters get up on Election Day at 5 a. m., troop by lantern light down steep Mt. Greylock to ballot at the district school. This year National Broadcasting Co. arranged to send one of its bullet-nosed transmitter trucks to the scene for a play-by-play description of the voting & counting. That this would dull the brightness of its election morning flash was at once apparent to the Eagle. Editor Lawrence K. Miller sent a newshawk to sleep in the filling station which has New Ashford's one public telephone...
...TIME fully reported Runner Cunningham's record, characterized that extra-meet event as "No. i thrill." TIME'S sportswriter, no provincial, impartially observed of the trackmen at Philadelphia and Des Moines that "both groups gave spectators few records, many thrills." Space limitations prevented TIME from publishing a play-by-play account of either meet...
...Author Pratt denies that Caesar was ever a pervert, even for policy; he mentions Caesar's mistress Servilia only in passing. For Caesar's rapid imposition of New Deal legislation on Rome he has nothing but implicit praise. Two-thirds of the book is devoted to a play-by-play account of Caesar's campaigns-a summary which leads Author Pratt to the surprising conclusion that Caesar "never became great as a soldier.'' He was not even a good soldier; his tactics were "infantile," his strategy "hackneyed and obvious"; he handled cavalry like...
Meantime, ignorant of this excitement, Chief Justice Hughes read on, giving reasons, citing precedents for his opinion. At the White House play-by-play reports of the decision came to the President and his friends. To Secretary Morgenthau the luncheon planned as a possible council of war had become purely a social occasion. Attorney General Cummings and Senator Robinson came to join the White House jubilation. An official bulletin said: "The President is gratified by the decisions." To the New Deal, however, the import of those opinions may yet have significance...