Word: willowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notes between the notes: "Doojie-Woogie," Johnny Hodges' latest effort for Vocation, is well worth getting. It has the usual weird alto sax of the leader and some very fine rhythm riffs . . . Mildred Bailey sings a song from the Mikado, "Tit Willow," and despite shrill shricks of horror from the Savoyards, it still is an excellent job . . . Blue Note, a private recording concern of New York City, has just released its third and fourth records, a ten and twelve inch platter of the blues, with such stars as Frankie Newton and Albert Ammons taking part. While the recording wasn...
...Miss) CURTIS WAGER-SMITH Willow Grove...
...sleek as freshly peeled willow. As overalled mechanics trundled her out for the warm-up at March Field one day last week she gleamed slimly among the bulb-nosed fighters, the potbellied bombers on the Army Air Corps Southern California airdrome. Major General Henry H. Arnold, greying Chief of the Air Corps, surveyed with particular approval her twin engines, Prestone-cooled V12 Allisons of 1,000 horsepower each, faired trimly into the metal wing. Well he knew that broad-beamed radial air-cooled motors, such as the big U. S. engine builders have brought to perfection, could not be used...
...Forbes, riding at the number one post for Harvard, led the Crimson scoring with six goals, tying Cadet West for scoring honors. Gay Dillingham at number two, wafted the willow pellet through the posts twice to complete the Harvard tallying...
...seawater over the breakwaters and into these cities. The dead numbered 99, thousands of flimsy wood & paper Japanese homes collapsed. Modern skyscrapers stood firm, but railway and electric services were suspended over much of the Empire. Japanese reported as a notable disaster the uprooting of a clump of ancient willow trees near the moat of the Imperial Palace of their Divine Emperor...