Word: stomped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pomp. He is an able, creative, precedent-breaking administrator with a rare humility and an ever-present concern for people. He has been readier than any other Pope in memory to leave the Vatican, a man about town who likes nothing better than to dodge his chauffeurs and stomp through Roman streets on his own. They call him "Johnnie Walker...
...students who worked so hard. We have students who come to us as freshmen and are already working toward a Fulbright." Carleton has few distractions; Northfield is sleepily sedate, and the college bans cars, so socializing is mostly of the walk-and-talk kind. Even the occasional big stomp-and-holler has a cloistered flavor; last year Duke Ellington's band was hired, installed in the only building on campus big enough to hold both musicians and students. After a less-than-frantic first set, the Duke apologized: "The boys never played a chapel before. They...
...flourished in the Chicago of the '20s. Soon Big Bill was playing far and wide with the best of them-Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson, Fats Waller. And always there was time to write his own songs: Partnership Woman, House Rent Stomp, Outskirts of Town...
...still they listened: "Now King Hussein, the enemy of his people, the enemy of Arabs, the enemy of humanity, brings back the British so they can stomp on the dignity of the Arab people in Jordan as they did in the past. What kind of a King is this? What kind of blood flows in his veins? This is surely not Arab blood...
...Swing swung down the nostalgic side of the street. Besides tootling what is still the sweetest clarinet this side of the '30s, Maestro Goodman husked It's Gotta Be This or That, was spelled by such other oldtimers as Trumpeter Harry James in King Porter Stomp, Singers Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and Ray Eberle. But it was not until Benny meshed with his old quintet (including Teddy Wilson on piano and Red Norvo thrumming the vibraphone) that Maestro Goodman seemed to hit his old stride in syncopation so well arranged that it sounded like real jazz improvisation...