Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remainder of the previously unheard compositions, except for "B B and B," consisted of "Going Up" from his new picture, "Cabin in the Sky," and a group of recorded, but as yet unreleased numbers. The first seemed rather senseless and blatant, but as is typical with Ellington, this impression will probably wear off on further hearings. The others were impressive, especially an unnamed blues...
...conspicuous than any other. This year U.S. farmers plan to seed 52.5 million acres to wheat and 22.5 million acres to cotton. Thus they may add 73 million bushels of wheat, nine million bales of cotton to the stupendous carryovers of these two crops the U.S. has already. This senseless task will take uncounted numbers of men and machines. A man with the requisite political guts and power to force these acreages into the production of crops the U.S. so sorely needs could at one stroke end a national crisis and a national scandal...
River Crossing. Two other trainees had been knocked about that morning as the same company made a river-crossing on a toggle-rope bridge while bombs exploded near by in the water. One bomb blew an officer into the water, knocked him senseless for a few moments. It also caught another in the water, sent him to a hospital...
...chance to fight sooner than he expected. On the second day that he walked into his office he landed smack in the middle of one of the senseless, directionless, back-biting family quarrels that have racked WPB from the start...
...Louis Armstrong show musicians what could be done with a trumpet. Instead of a blaring, brassy, emotionless instrument, Louis made it a warm, passionate voice. James can still play a hot horn; he turns out an occasional good chorus. But he has added fiddles, written his own lush and senseless orchestrations, and become the number one band of the nation. Well, buy Harry's new record of "I Cried For You" and dance to it, but you won't enjoy listening to it three months from...