Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, the Three Flames-Pianist Roy Testamark, Guitarist George ("Tiger") Haynes and Bull Fiddler Averill ("Bill") Pollard-who seem to create their special brand of jived-up patter and song by spontaneous combustion, were cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during last...
...insisted that her converts be "hand-minded." "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God," she said. The furniture they made, first for themselves and later for sale, was strong and simple. Yet it is some of the most beautiful furniture ever produced in the U.S. Their solid brick houses and great barns also have an austere beauty. Though Shakers had little use for book-learning, they were inventors. In an ecstatic vision, Shaker Sister Sarah Babbitt invented the buzz saw. Shakers are credited with inventing the one-horse shay. At a time when the quality of garden...
Despite some grumbling from Republican rebels (like Oklahoma's Taft-minded Senator Ed Moore), Dewey's Midwest strength looked pretty solid. Then in Kansas City he heard the beat of an ominous drum...
Tepee Camp. Calgary's 31 hotels were booked solid. Some 75,000 people jammed the streets, pushed and shoved through the midway sideshows, watched a four-mile-long parade that included everything from Indians to Sherman tanks. Indian families camped in tepees...
...fulfillment of a lifelong dream of the B.S.O.'s conductor, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, came with the founding of the school just before the war; and this season found more than even last year's record enrollment crowding school facilities for the first-of-July opening. With a solid week of student concerts already under its belt, the huge outdoor shed echoing to the myriad noises of tuning musicians, and the full-scale Berkshire Festival due to get underway, the Orchestra management announced last week final plans for the season...