Word: thumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Headache. Perhaps the luckiest college, football-wise, is California's College of the Pacific. Its head coach, Grand Old Amos Alonzo Stagg, is a firm and vigorous 80 (see cut) and not likely to quit as long as he can hear the thump of foot on football. Among the first-rate coaches who have flocked to the Navy's Preflight Training Schools are: Minnesota's Bernie Bierman (Iowa Preflight), Fordham's Jim Crowley (North Carolina Preflight), Southern Methodist's Matty Bell (Georgia Preflight), Southern California's Sam Barry (St. Mary's Preflight...
...stop pirating of workers by stabilizing wages, he ran head on into two other war agencies. Wage Boss William H. Davis' man was there with a second plan. Price Boss Leon Henderson's man was there with a third plan. The conference fell, with a loud, painful thump, among the three Government stools...
...Sugar") Robinson, Harlem's undefeated welterweight: a nontitle match against lightweight champion Sammy Angott; by unanimous decision of the officials at the end of ten rounds; after both had hit the canvas with a single thump in the eighth; giving Robinson his 33rd straight triumph in his professional career; .at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...
...Crosby item has on one side a rather effectively weird, or maybe it's weirdly effective, piece by the arranger for the band, Bob Haggart, who calls it "Chain Gang." Tomtoms thump throughout, and there is some raucous muted trumpeting by Yank Lawson, who has heard Cootie Williams play. The reverse is an arrangement for the orchestra of the beautiful piano improvisation by Jess Stacy called "Ec-Stacy," which was recorded nearly three years ago. This remake stars Stacy again, but although it is an attractive, easily swinging performance, it has lost most of the expressiveness of the original, largely...
...like the soldiers on the back porch. . . . They are looking through the window at Annie. She hates that." "They are doing no harm," said the Colonel. "Well, Annie hates to be stared at." Soon "from the doorway came the sound of an angry woman's voice and a thump and a man's cry." The butler scuttled...