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Boston Globe Jazz Festival--Dave Brubeck Quartet, plus Woody Herman and the Young Thunderin' Herd, Symphony Hall...
...were invented (caucus, lynch-law, squatter), improvised (sockdolager, spondulix, absquatulate), and embellished (kerflop, kerthump, kersouse). The general exuberance also burst out in political oratory and tall talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous"). It spilled over in the invincible optimism with which new towns called themselves cities, hotel was any flea-bitten tavern, and opera house meant any public hall, with or without a roof...
...Talkin' of city fellahs, I never see enybody droive so thunderin' fast as them. Why, I'm durned, if I did n't come nigh to havin' a hoss killed by 'em. I let 'em have him to go gunnin', and when that ere hoss got back he could scercely walk for lickin'. Drinkin', I s'pose, done it. I went to 'em and made 'em fork out fifteen dollars damage, and that did n't more than make me square. But, say; have you seed my sheep? Best lot in teown...
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