Word: jolt
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...like any neighborhood joint around St. Mark's Place on the Lower East Side. Its only distinctive touch was Sam's cousin, "Bottle Sam" Hock, who amused the trade by whacking tunes out of whisky bottles with a suds-scraper. But the customers got a joyful jolt when Sam opened up one morning last week...
...since then, businessmen and politicians in Rio had speculated endlessly on the probable diagnoses, the possible cures. Some had hopefully regarded "los Abbinks" as advance agents of the U.S. Treasury. Last week, when the U.S. State Department finally published a summary of the report, the optimists got a rude jolt. Uncle Sam's voice was more like that of a Dutch uncle whose main message was: do it yourself-and this...
...November 1917, with the U.S. at war, Storyville and jazz were handed a stunning jolt. At the Navy's request, New Orleans clamped down on the disease-ridden "District," put it permanently out of business. New Orleans witnessed an exodus unique in U.S. history. Hundreds of prostitutes streamed from their cribs carrying their belongings. Establishments like Lulu White's renowned Mahogany Hall (one of Louis' most prized recordings is Mahogany Hall Stomp) closed for good, and so did scores of "in mills and honky-tonks that had prepared a home for jazz music and jobs...
...Hint & the Jolt. The show was meant as a hint of what might happen if artists and Church were to cooperate once again, as they had in the greatest periods of Western art. It was an important and provocative try. But the ten statues commissioned by the society, while more varied than the Barclay Street product, were not always an improvement...
...would like to urge you to guide and instruct," he wrote, "to lead strongly in these artistic matters. But it is obvious, I feel, that the beneficial effect of your leadership will be much greater if the sculptural image which we offer is not too much of a jolt...