Word: shouting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jimmie later sweated over fundamentals with an old-fashioned scales and exercises man. In 1912 easy money ended Jimmie's school days-he started playing in cafes. For the dancing pleasure of the "Geechies," Negroes from around Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga., he worked up his noted Carolina Shout. Near Manhattan's 37th St., in the "Old Tenderloin," he studied under Ablaba, a honkytonk pianist with a "left hand like a walking beam." On that beam he modeled his own "walking bass." By 1920 he had what French jazz enthusiasts are apt to call majesty...
...people's mind was, as grass-root William Allen White's Emporia Gazette stated in plain singletalk, the question whether they can "believe the reports and statements of our leaders ... in this war." The people did not shout for General Patton's scalp. There were editorial shouts and much dinner-table clamor-and humorists in the Army's monstrous Pentagon Building in Washington sang: "Pistol Packing Patton Laid that Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high...
Colonel Joseph B. Wells had to shout to TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White; thunderous twin engines were driving their B-25 bomber over the turbulent waters of the South China Sea. Wells pointed a finger at Shinchiku airdrome on Formosa, one of Japan's great nests of air power and transshipment centers. The only newspaperman to accompany "the most dangerous mission ever attempted by fighters and bombers of the Fourteenth Air Force" White cabled: "Surprise and good navigation were vital to success. The mission was to be at almost suicidal level-even five minutes warning would give the Zeros...
Patton turned to the medical officer and asked, "What's this man talking about? What's wrong with him-if anything?" Patton began to shout at the man. His high voice rose to a scream, in such language as: "You dirty no-good - - - -! You cowardly -! You're a disgrace to the Army and you're going right back to the front to fight, although that's too good for you. . . ." Patton reached for his white-handled single-action Colt...
...month, she had been a fortnight in England. Said Cynthia, as 800 British and Dominion and 14 U.S. wounded rode, stumped or walked with shattered arms in splints down the gangways of the Atlantis: "I simply had to come to Liverpool, but I didn't expect that terrific shout...