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...seat in London's cavernous Empress Hall, Armstrong growled: "Now we are going to jump one for one of our special fans. We're gonna lay one on for the Princess!" Grinning happily, Princess Margaret hugged her knees. Armstrong's cats then blared the Mahogany Hall Stomp, a jazz classic celebrating a famous turn-of-the-century New Orleans bordello that boasted an octoroon madame with a red wig and the only white piano in town. When the echoes died away, Margaret exclaimed: "Wonderful night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...also includes a touch of pathos which gives the comedy depth. Roddy McDowall has a smaller role as Will's whining and utterly realistic buddy, but he manages it neatly. Lastly, Howard Freeman and Royal Beal create convincing characters out of the two red-faced generals, who stomp and fume and titter falsely before exploding...

Author: By H. CHOUTEAU Dyer, | Title: No Time for Sergeants | 10/10/1955 | See Source »

...Regulations could hold him back. He got back into the R.A.F. as a fighter pilot, eventually led five squadrons of more than 60 planes, and became "the R.A.F.'s first wing leader." He was a swashbuckling, pugnacious, fearless flyer who would fly ten sweeps in seven days, then stomp about on the ground, hungering to get into the air again. He was one of the few to whom so many owed so much through the Battle of Britain, and even among those few, he stood out. Only two men before him won bars to both the D.S.O. and D.F.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Hero's Story | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...stomp and howl and maul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Follow the Fold | 4/23/1954 | See Source »

...runnin' up & down and a-blowin' whistles. They was . . . And friends, Ah seen that evenin' the awfullest fight that Ah have ever seen in mah life. Ah did. They would run at one another and kick one another and th'ow one another down and stomp on one another and grind their feet in one another and Ah don't know what-all-and jest as fast as one o' them'd get hurt, they'd tote him off and run another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What It Is, Is Talk | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

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