Word: yonder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year 1914 way down yonder in New Orleans Sid Bechet, still in short pants, broke into music, playing clarinet in the Eagle Brass Band which paraded for festivals and funerals. In recent years Bechet has made many great jazz records with special studio bands and only last month he appeared as features star on Esquire's coast-to-coast jazz broadcast over the Blue Network. Bunk Johnson on cornet also played in the old Eagle Band, and by 1914 hen Bechet joined him he was already an old timer, having performed with King Bolden's Band...
...Belt Mountains. Exiled to the mountains during the Civil War, Confederate prisoners went prospecting. When the gold rush began, a greenhorn asked a bearded old prospector where he should dig. The old man spat, pointed to the least likely-looking place he could see, and said, "Try that bar yonder." The greenhorn scooped up panfuls of clean gold...
...observant, though unfortunate people who might still be traipsing about the streets of Cambridge and Boston after dark. The first of these unusual happenings will be an emptying of the various Officers' Clubs about town, the like of which has not been seen in these parts since way back yonder when servicemen weren't restricted from strolling through the Boston Common after...
Attention! Adjust bow-ties! Two! "Off we go into the Vendome yonder. . ." It's this Saturday evening, men, and hundreds of beautiful women, so finish off that nasty old report and let's hobnob with Boston's bellest belles. And watch those married men go to town! BUT, that's somenone else's assignment...
...down yonder in New Orleans they had plenty to cheer about last week. Andrew Jackson Higgins, their No. 1 boatbuilder, money-maker and hoopla artist, had practically landed one of the biggest single transport-plane contracts in U.S. history: about $180,000,000 for 1,200 huge, twin-engined, all-plywood troop-and tank-carrying planes. This was good news for Louisiana's Andrew Higgins-the man who took ribbing aplenty when his much-touted Liberty Ship contract was canceled last summer. It also meant that Higgins had stolen a march on his friend and archrival, Henry Kaiser...