Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stubborn delaying actions, gathered to the last man to harass, confuse and delay again. It was after 5 o'clock in the evening when the bill was brought before the House- a reading of Washington's Farewell Address, bickering oratory over parliamentary points and seven time-consuming roll calls had eaten up the afternoon. The Southerners received subtle assistance from the Speaker, Texas' Sam Rayburn...
punctuated by more roll calls and endless parliamentary infighting...
Back to Jelly Roll Morton. Playing to their first nationwide audience, the Fire-housers sounded like just what they were: topflight amateurs who can push some professionals when it comes to two-beat jazz. Says Kimball: "We try to play as authentically as we can-along the lines of Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. We don't try to copy them; we use them as our inspiration. We like to give the tunes our own treatment...
When 20-year-old Levi Strauss sailed from Manhattan round Cape Horn to San Francisco in 1850 to seek a fortune in the gold fields, he carried a roll of canvas in his baggage. He intended to sell it to a tentmaker to get enough cash for a grubstake. But when he got ashore, the complaint of a friendly miner gave him a better idea. "Pants don't wear worth a hoot up in the diggins," said the miner. "Can't get a pair strong enough to last no time...
Levi promptly went into the clothing business. He had a tailor cut a pair of trousers from his canvas roll, and soon the miner was strolling all over town, boasting how strong were these "pants of Levi's." With one satisfied customer, Strauss found he had a steady stream of men who wanted "Levis." In a shop on San Francisco's California Street, he began making dozens of pairs of the waist-high overalls which defied the wear & tear of bronc-riding, gold-mining and plain ordinary living...