Word: blew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brown-skinned man with the golden horn pursed his scarred lips, blew a short stream of incredibly high, shining notes and then carefully laid the trumpet down. "There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life," he graveled, "and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true-to be King of the Zulus' Parade. After that I'll be ready...
...variety of jazz, bebop (or bop). The boppers, who know the way he feels, tend to speak of him in the past tense. "Nowadays," says Negro Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, "we try to work out different rhythms and things that they didn't think about when Louis Armstrong blew. In his day all he did was play strictly from the soul-just strictly from his heart. You got to go forward and progress. We study...
Novelist Somerset Maugham was given a belated 75th birthday party by Manhattan's Overseas Press Club. He blew out a single candle and offered a serene opinion on Britain's future: "There can be no reason to fear for the nation so long as the women of England retain their magnificent virility...
...Snow blew in from California this week, and exam-weary students began scraping and lacquering their skiis in preparation for between-terms christies...
Walter Gieseking is now back in Europe, and the storm that blew up lover his political beliefs has subsided. Only a few hours before he was scheduled to give a piano concert in New York Monday night, the Justice Department decided to held him for a hearing, apparently to find out whether he was "an undesirable alien." Gieseking chose to leave the country. His departure has been cheered by the various groups that picketed Carnegie Hall before the scheduled concert, charging that the German artist was a Nazi...