Word: subterranean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuff to Bach's grandfather. Though boogie-woogie's mournful thump and clatter had long been heard in the humbler dives of New Orleans and Chicago, it was not taken up by the connoisseurs until 1938. In Manhattan the temple of boogie-woogie has been a subterranean Leftist cabaret in Greenwich Village called Café Society. Its high priests: Negroes Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis...
...While subterranean current flashed between Washington and New York, SEC Chairman Jerome Frank answered Senator Norris' letter. He saw no need for the suggested probe since Hanes had candidly informed the SEC exactly who his backers were. The list: a member of the investment firm of Lazard Freres & Co., which has no direct interest in Associated; officials of the Chase National Bank, which has; Guaranty Trust Co.; Bankers Trust Co.; and CO. President Roger Whiteford, wrote Frank, has "been made president of that company at the instance of the sisters and a brother-in-law of Mr. Hopson...
What "Big Red" says, goes. Oklahoma is constitutionally bone-dry, but licenses 3.2 beer, which is dispensed in the subterranean cafeteria of the domeless State House. But "Big Red" mortally hates liquor, fires out of hand employes who drink on duty. If you were to order beer in the State House cafeteria this week, chances are the waitress would ask guardedly: "Do you want it in a paper cup?" If you were a State employe, you'd say "Yes." She would keep the bottle out of sight and you'd pick up some mints...
Because he was loved for his humanitarian spirit by most newspapermen, be cause he was gracious and a subtle theorist, Heywood Broun's own personality had kept harmony in the Guild. But with Broun gone, there was more than a possibility that these subterranean dissensions might erupt into open revolt...
...Istanbul Observatory's announcement that the Turkish epicentre was 16 miles underground, led earthquake experts to warn that there would probably be further shocks, perhaps for as long as six months. There are many faults under Turkey, and seismologists predicted it would take some time for a new subterranean balance to be achieved...