Word: playin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handlers laid out fresh clothes as Fats mopped his face and clambered out of his tan silk suit (he owns 51 such rigs). The band got a quick dressing-down: "You guys ain't playin' wuth a cotton picker's wages-a real crummy beat." Then, turning to reporters, Fats philosophized about his wearying one-night stands: "Gold all the way, but man, they get old." Fats's gold standards are high: he estimates that he will make $600,000 to $700,000 this year, spend $60,000 on a house in New Orleans...
...first Ah heard of it." Warming to the notion, The Pelvis burbled: "If Ah thought it'd do any good, Ah'd just take ma guitar an' get right out there on the front lines. Wouldn' that be somethin'-me singin' an' playin' ma guitar an' bullets whizzin' all 'round like in Hungary!" Then, carried away by the vision, he manfully declared: "If Ah can keep world peace, Ah'll go over an' sing...
...once carried $100,000 worth of insurance on his celebrated nose, had reason to regret letting the policy lapse. While rehearsing a TV show with Schmaltz Pianist Liberace, Jimmy had a long-overdue accident, best described in his own words: "There's this piano scene. I'm playin' a duet wit Liberace. So I hits two notes, he hits two notes. Then I say, 'In a competition, you got to use all your weapons.' So I starts to play wit my nose. So Liberace comes over and accidentally touches the piano...
After "fiddlin' and playin' " with designs for ten years, Dallas' Frigikar Corp. finally had what it wanted last week: a refrigerating unit which will cool an automobile. Fitting compactly under the hood and in the trunk compartment, the Frigikar apparatus will reduce a car's interior temperature from 100° to 70° in a matter of minutes. Price: a cool...
...Playin without the services of Turk Broder, hospitalized with a broken cheekbone, the Yardlings' defense could not cope with Tabor's speedy attack, letting the Middies take many unopposed shots...