Word: stomps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stomp. The letter was nearly done. "It is said that in the last moments of one's life one thinks of all the bad things. I feel better in that I had my wish in learning of your safe return to Greenwich -you were so wonderful-understanding -I'm glad the newspapers gave you a decent report ... I can perhaps feel that as my last thoughts didn't turn up a lot of bad that I wasn't too bad in life . . . which God knows is more than bad enough." He added a postscript, "What...
...minutes from Berlin's dead center is a slice of Long Island or California civilization-the American colony. This week the local baseball season got into full swing; Tempelhof airbase invited all American girls to the "Stateside Stomp" in the Skyrider Ballroom; everything from keel boats to canoes and kayaks is skimming the Wannsee's smooth, sunny waters. This is little America, APO 742-A, including bingo, jukeboxes, dog shows, fashion shows and horse shows...
...thou shalt mark each one well; and if some goat doth prance and stomp and beat upon the ground with his hoof, heed...
Some of the Negro congregation began to murmur the words of the hymn the choir was singing, "How sweet it is to know Him, Jesus Christ divine." Slowly choir and congregation began to sway and clap and stomp to the rhythm. People in the audience jiggled and jounced up & down shouting "Oh Lord, tell a story!" A mother pushed her child from her lap, crying "Oh Jesus, I'll fly away...
Bushman. Marlin Perkins' collection at Lincoln Park is good, if not dazzling. Among its 2,800 specimens are several star performers. One of them is Heinie, a male chimp who does a terrifying stomp to get an audience's notice and then spits ponderously at the nearest face. Other headliners are Dillinger, an 18-year-old lion whose savagery has never been tempered, and Judy, a 39-year-old elephant, who loves cough drops...