Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...vulcanize masks for the expanding Army. The masks hang in the classroom both as symbols and instruments of instruction. Edgewood's students are there to learn more than how and when to don a gas mask. Of the lethal gases they learn that chlorine, phosgene and diphosgene attack a man's lungs, are soon blown away. More deadly are mustard and lewisite, which hang in wooded areas for days at a time. Against these, gas masks are only partial protection, for they attack men's bodies, produce ghastly burns. (Lewisite may also cause death from arsenic poisoning...
After three days the German Admiralty tersely claimed the complete destruction of a British convoy totaling 86,000 tons "on the British western route" by "surface craft of the German oversea Navy forces. . . . The attack of the German units was made with striking quickness, because, from the other ships sunk, not even SOS signals were caught by American radio stations." British authorities called the whole story "unlikely." They said that "a number of ships successfully eluded the raider." But day followed day with no further word from the Rangitiki, Cornish City or any other ship that had been with them...
Said Mr. Ickes: that was "very admirable," but he doubted whether all papers were working for unity. He said there was a paper (name not given) which had taken its stand behind the President in an editorial on page 1, inside had printed a columnist's attack on the President. Miss Mallon reminded him that a columnist's opinions were his own, not the publisher's. That, said Mr. Ickes, was the bunk...
...drives because that's the way the boys feel. Just compare the Basic brass section with Harry James' or Glenn Miller's and I think you'll see what I mean. There are swing bands and swing bands, but the Count is unique in having an ensemble whose savage attack is purely spontancous, and consequently relaxed. Now this word "relaxed," I realize, has become a standing joke around these parts, yet it's the only way to describe how Count Basic's orchestra plays, because it constitutes the difference between Basic and bands of the Glenn Miller type. The latter...
Finally I'd like to mention the heartbeat of this collective cuthusiasm the rhythm section. Count Basic may not be your favorite orchestra, but you'll have to go far to find a rhythm section as completely sensitive to the ensemble attack and phrasing, as the Count's. Remember that with four men Jo Jones on drums, Freddic Green on guitar, Walter Page on bass, and Basie himself on piano--the experiment of using the section as a solo unit was first carried out. Listen to the release choruses on records like Doggin' Around and Jumpin' at the Woodside...