Word: tryin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intermission pianist swung into a chorus of Basin Street, he turned his head attentively. "He's got some good ideas," he said. "You can't create everything. You hafta listen to the other fella." His strong fingers flexed in an imaginary run. "I'm always tryin' new ideas. No matter how far you go with a tune, there's always something else...
...students lived on little more than sweetened water and black peas. The Negroes of the town could only help him a little. An old woman hobbled up to him one day and gave him all she had-six eggs. "Mr. Washington," she said, "I knows what you is tryin...
...sick of tryin...
...legal shellacking. They are saved when practically all the Paramount players who could be rounded up stage a benefit show. The acts, stronger on noise than on finesse, reach some sort of climax in Cass Daley's confident rendition of You Can't Blame a Gal for Tryin'. Best acts: Betty Hutton singing The Hard Way in self-explanation to a psychoanalyst; Eddie Bracken suffering superbly as a double in a horse opera; Robert Benchley showing Bing Crosby's four young sons an illustrated biography of their father...
...first tryin, I asked my patient to bring his flute and play for me, with the new teeth in position. . . . Trouble was discovered almost at once. After playing for a few moments, my musical patient laid his instrument aside with an air of utter resignation. 'Doctor, that depression in the center of the palate is no good for me-the air becomes stranded in the hollow. I can't produce a normal legato...