Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pianist, says the simple, two-beat blues was first played by groups of Negro teen-agers too poor to pay the fare into Chicago's hot jazz spots. "It was the product of the Depression, the fusion of gospel shouts, spirituals and time spent in hole-in-the-wall joints where you ate chili and got a bellyache." It is something of a mystery when skiffle began infecting the sailors' pubs of Limehouse and Whitechapel, but in recent months the craze has overrun London and swarmed across Britain...
...from each other, they do three things: 1) the large disks on their outer end draw fresh air from the atmosphere into chambers behind them; 2) they compress captive air in a "bounce chamber" at each end of the cylinder; 3) they uncover two sets of ports in the wall of the combustion chamber...
Parsifal on the Capehart. When Mummy finally stumbled out of her marriage to John Barrymore, she married Wall Street Attorney Harrison Tweed, returned to the Social Register and determined to make a lady of Diana. The girl was sent to Miss Hewitt's Classes (where "the Astors and Vanderbilts always voted for each other in class elections"), to the Brearley School and to Garrison Forest, where her father wound up in a necking session with one of her schoolmates. ''You look like a clown riding to a circus!" Mummy would scream if Diana hit an off note...
...York Club also has an even record this season, having lost narrowly to Princeton and beaten Wall Street. Its greatest strength lies in the experience of its players, many of whom are Britons working in New York. With an average age of about 30, it wins the oldest-local-rugby-team title by a comfortable margin...
...When the free world labor movement fights for social justice against poverty and hunger...it does more to fight communism in one week than all the fat cats of Wall Street do in their whole lives because they stand in the way of progress...