Word: humbler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Women's Army Auxiliary Corps will provide women for the Army's humbler jobs-switchboard operators, cooks, chauffeurs, laundresses, welfare workers, clerks, Aircraft Warning Service spotters & plotters. They will serve under the War Department, with special names for ranks, but with Army pay, Army uniforms and Army discipline...
...whatever variations the player can think up. Its form is identical with that of the classical passacaglia, a kind of dance music (of Spanish origin) that was old stuff to Bach's grandfather. Though boogie-woogie's mournful thump and clatter had long been heard in the humbler dives of New Orleans and Chicago, it was not taken up by the connoisseurs until 1938. In Manhattan the temple of boogie-woogie has been a subterranean Leftist cabaret in Greenwich Village called Café Society. Its high priests: Negroes Albert Ammons, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis...