Word: stomp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says. > Lionel Hampton, 50, has always been the clown prince of jazz, and he still fronts his band tirelessly. His thesis, he says, is that a good band doesn't have to be dull. To prove it, he likes to leap up on a drum and stomp with both feet. His band is by far the least disciplined in jazz, and as a result his sidemen feel free to swing privately. Sometimes the players seem to be digging their own private scene, but on a good night they stir up a roomful of creative excitement. Hamp's arrangements...
...French champagne while nudes stroll through a cage full of tigers. Aleco's, headquarters for the sports-car set, has walls hung with a Scots tartan, sells Scotch for only 50½ a drink. As the jukebox blares, the patrons-clad in everything from Dior gowns to dungarees-stomp through the hully gully. Munich's promiscuity is an unleering sort, and only during Fasching does it become objectionable...
Shuffle forward; shuffle back; turn, bend and stomp, repeated time after time in endless succession, each third beat of the foot being accentuated in unison by the thwack of cupped palms brought sharp upon the curve of naked thighs...
...Probus (PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS) Club, among dozens of other such groups. Cosmopolitan Washington has its Recorder Society, Foggy Bottom Chamber Music Group, and Potomac English Handbell Ringers. And Manhattan, naturally, has an ad-agency outfit called The Many Splendored Stompers, whose theme song is Man in a Gray Flannel Stomp...
...enough to make old Peter Stuyvesant stomp around on his stump. From Brazil, 23 Jews had arrived in Governor Stuyvesant's New Amsterdam in 1654. Peter sent off a letter to his superiors in the Dutch West India Company seeking permission (unsuccessfully) to evict the members of the "very repugnant, deceitful race, hateful enemies and blasphemers of the name of Christ, lest they infect and trouble this new colony with their customary usury and deceitful trading...