Word: roll
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Timing his attack to meet labor's charges that retail prices have skyrocketed beyond reach, Price Boss Prentiss Brown promised: 1) to extend price control to "every important commodity"; 2) to roll back prices which have got out of hand (meat, fresh and canned vegetables, coffee); 3) to establish specific dollars-&-cents maximum prices for all foods...
Offensive to their infantry-trained commanding officer, Colonel Eugene R. Householder, were Roll Out The Barrel, When The War Is Over, Around Her Neck (she wore a yellow ribbon), Oh, My Feet Hurt, I've Been Working On the Railroad, The Moron Song, How Dry I Am and Hinky-dinky, Parlez-Vous...
...acts out whole scenes while he's playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these sides he plays straight barrelhouse piano, miles ahead of the crabbed, primitive style of Jimmie Yancey and the ragtime of Jelly Roll Morton, proving that if he had lived, Pine Top might have revolutionized jazz piano. Even so, his style is completely up to date, regardless of the date, 1928. The recording is astonishingly faithful...
Most recent choices: Marching Along Together, I've Heard That Song Before, Comin' In On a Wing and a Prayer, There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, This Time, I Just Kissed Your Picture Goodnight, Roll Out the Barrel...
...onetime radio musical director. The Special Service Division thought U.S. doughboys ought to have something up-to-date to sing, to provide a substitute for Army bands which are often left far behind the front. The Army has since found the Hit Kit useful in another way. U.S. forces rolling over occupied territory in tanks and jeeps make a friendly impression on native populations by bellowing such tunes as Roll Out the Barrel...