Word: stomps
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...thoug shalt mark each one well: and if some Goat doth prance and stomp and beat upon the ground with his hoof, heed...
...thing, there were his sermons on taking the profit out of war. Says he: "One or two people always stomp angrily out of the church whenever I intimate that anybody ever made a profit out of war." He also preached against "the obsession with making money," and "sharp practices in business." Some of his critics thought it was the last straw when, in celebration of this year's "Brotherhood Week,"* Pastor Douds invited a Negro minister, the Rev. Edward Graham, to preach from his pulpit...
...disease-ridden "District," put it permanently out of business. New Orleans witnessed an exodus unique in U.S. history. Hundreds of prostitutes streamed from their cribs carrying their belongings. Establishments like Lulu White's renowned Mahogany Hall (one of Louis' most prized recordings is Mahogany Hall Stomp) closed for good, and so did scores of "in mills and honky-tonks that had prepared a home for jazz music and jobs for its musicians...
...Mississippi River excursion boats Dixie Bell and Sidney. The pay was the unheard of (for Satchmo) sum of $55 a week. Says he: "I had so much money I just plain didn't know what to do with it." They played such old Storyville favorites as Sugar Foot Stomp, Willie the Weeper and Coal Cart Blues, and Louis held the gay crowds spellbound when he sang the relatively new Basin Street Blues...
...revue and invite the German officers who are guarding them. In the middle of the show, Gabin hears the news the Allies have finally won this battle. He rushes on the stage, roars out the good news, and all the prisoners rise and sing the "Marsaillaise." The German officers stomp out, and Gabin is put into solitary confinement...