Word: whips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lanky Eddie Gall, traffic cop at Dearborn and Madison, rubbed his big bass drum with glass wax. Ed Roubik, warehouse foreman, licked the mouthpiece of his ebony musette pipe and squealed a few notes. Hefty Morton H. Petrie, salesman for a candy company, strapped on his whip drum and knocked off a couple of tiddybums, tiddybums. Shrieking pipes and throbbing drums in the hands of 60 middle-aged musicians swung informally into The Hootchy-Kootchy, Little Egypt's tune at the 1893 World's Fair...
...Dauthuille. A cloud of suspicion still hung over La Motta's fight with Philadelphia's Billy Fox two years ago, which the referee stopped in the fourth because of Jake's feeble performance. About all last week's fight proved was that Cerdan could not whip La Motta with one hand...
...band, one of the first to play bop (two of his musicians: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker), ended in failure. He gave it up when a booking agent, "one of those guys with the whip," jumped the band from Los Angeles to Baltimore. From there on, he went it alone...
When Capot and Palestinian headed into the stretch five lengths in front of the field, Atkinson gave Capot the whip and pulled clear. He had Palestinian beaten. But where was Ponder? Atkinson would never forget the way Ponder charged by him when he thought he had the Kentucky Derby won last month. As sometimes happens to slow beginners, Ponder had gotten mousetrapped down on the rail. When he worked free he put on a run that brought the crowd of 40,421 up on tiptoe. But 20 yards from the finish, Atkinson "turned his stick" and relaxed; Capot nailed...
...early comers had grabbed most of the folding chairs; late arrivals sat on the step around the pink-peony-decked center fountain. By the time energetic Conductor Bales had started to whip his 30 musicians through the first number, the hall was packed...