Word: rollingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...went on, as hard as ever . . . "the glory of the United States is business." At Fresno and at Stockton boys and young men booed and heckled him. But everywhere the crowds were big-to the pros, unexpectedly big. Day after day the big round-shouldered amateur learned: how to roll with a punch, how to throw a hook. Most important, he never quit. Grudgingly, the newshawks came to respect his bull-like persistence, his obstinate honesty, the deep strength of his convictions, which he could not lay aside each evening as practiced politicians do. "This guy means it," one correspondent...
...Orleans tunes, with his mostly brass octet. Paul Laval, an Italo-Frenchman (born Joseph Usifer), plays clarinet and saxophone-his occasional saxophone work with the NBC Symphony has earned Toscanini's bravos-and leads the ten wood winds in his own hot arrangements. Guests have included Pianists "Jelly Roll" Morton, Alec Templeton and Joe Sullivan, Blues Composer W. C. Handy, Violinist Kurt Polnarioff of the Pittsburgh Symphony (with his hair down), Conductor Frank Black (with a hot harpsichord). Official singer is pretty, sultry-voiced Dinah Shore, 23, who was born Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn., changed her name...
Against it on the final roll call were 33 Democrats, 112 Republicans...
Political experts this week watched Maine for a forecast of political weather. The accuracy of the barometer was questionable. No one doubted that the State would go Republican in its elections. Question was how large a majority Republicans would roll...
Seafaring men of Britain well know that no naval duty is so anonymous or so hard as life on a destroyer. A destroyer does not roll; she snaps. She does not pitch; she gallops. Food and drink for days on end is taken with an arm and a leg locked around a stanchion...