Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Later he canceled a London engagement, offered to reimburse the Music, Art and Drama Society for its losses on 2,800 tickets. In protesting against "Italy's humiliation," he echoed the frenzied lamentations of Italian politicians and editors, one of whom wrote with rare unconscious humor: "Now the stab in the back has been repaid...
...forum on atomic energy. But most of the talk was the chitchat of old grads-who was doing what, and where, and to whom; what had happened to so-and-so; the off-color jokes, the old, corny gags. The commonest initial emotion was embarrassment-the desperate stab at a classmate's name, the awkward groping for something to talk about...
...presidential train rolled west, Winston Churchill fiddled with his speech until his press relations man finally got it away from him for mimeographing. The old man chatted with Harry Truman, showed off his knowledge of American history, made a creditable stab at reciting from memory Whittier's Barbara Frietchie: "Up from the meadows rich with corn, clear in the cool September morn. . . ." According to his custom, before dinner he rapidly downed five Scotch highballs...
...front row of spectators sat two men with a special interest in the proceedings: big, heavy, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, in a grey business suit, and lean, bronzed Lieut. General Walter C. Short, also in grey. Their careers were al ready wrecked. Now other men would feel the stab of fact as well as the bludgeon of political innuendoes...
Together, without rehearsals, they go through a nightly repertory of about 20 old pieces, along with an occasional unfortunate stab at such contemporary favorites as Bell Bottom Trousers. If the audience-or the band itself-likes a number, Bunk plays it again, sometimes a third time, each version entirely different. Bunk calls their style of playing ragtime ("they call it jazz, swing, they change the name. It's ragtime...