Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trumpet, will be featured at the Beachcomber in Providence on Sunday. If you remember his work of the old Hiekery House days, you'll want to go and hear him... little Holiday's recent coupling of Georgia on My Mind and Let's Do It, is certainly above reproach, yet Billie just isn't the convincing singer she was a few years back. Columbia has been putting out a number of albums recently. Why don't they get up a Billie Holiday album which would include musicians like Benny Goodman, Toddy Wilson, Lester Young, Jo Jones, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole...
...Whatever the next ten years may bring, I don't want to reproach myself for having made bad use of the breathing space thus offered me by fate." His journal is, accordingly, a record of beauty and of pleasure, intensified and at the same time sobered...
...answer is: No, it will not have been enough. If England goes down, there will, of course, be nothing but British graves to reproach me. But if she doesn't go down and rises, staggered and decimated, from out her bomb-craters and bloodbath, then there will be English men and women and children to face me. Shall I be able to face them? Again the answer...
...Franklin Roosevelt's acceptance speech, he pointed a finger of reproach at the "one exception," the only man who had refused to help him in his program for national defense. Who was the man? Gossip sizzled. The President would not tell. Washington wisemen thought it must have been Alf Landon, who had reportedly turned down a Cabinet job when the President refused to commit himself on Term...
...pretty well the U. S. state of mind. He knew that Americans considered the China war a nuisance (since it kept the U. S. Fleet tied down in the wrong ocean), a tragedy (because the weaker and righter side seemed to U. S. citizens to be the same), a reproach (because self-righteous Americans thought the U. S. should have been able to end the war long ago). But hfc also knew that the U. S. was divided umpteen ways on what to do about...