Word: secondhand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Armstrong Story (Columbia 8 sides LP). Collectors who have been scrounging in secondhand stores for years in search of battered copies of Armstrong classics can relax and enjoy more than three hours of Satchmo's trumpeting-from the free-for-all New Orleans style (Gut Bucket Blues, Heebie Jeebies) to his comparatively slicked-up versions of Stardust and Body and Soul...
...Lemon Drop Kid (Paramount) undertakes some drastic tailoring to fit a Damon Runyon fable to the measure of Bob Hope. The result is distinctly secondhand Runyon, but it is first-rate Hope...
Working nights and weekends, they wrote stockholders, charged the management was "inefficient and decadent " and should be tossed out. To round up proxies Smith flew his secondhand Beechcraft Bonanza plane one-armed around the country (blood poisoning cost him his right arm when a boy). In his whirlwind campaign, Smith spent more than $6,000 -but it paid off. At the stockholders' meeting last October, Smith's group won by 14,000 votes out of the 600,000 cast. Out of the $25,000-a-year presidency went
Platonic Revolt. Knox is impressed too, though sometimes amused, by John Wesley, founder of Methodism. "Wesley," he writes, "was unashamedly a retailer; his societies formed a kind of cooperative movement, acquiring their culture on reduced terms at secondhand." But, although the gatherings Wesley addressed were often seized with the cacophony of shouts, sobs and groanings that are associated with enthusiasm, Knox feels that Wesley himself was no enthusiast. He finds the appeal of Wesley's sermons was "to the head, not primarily to the heart...
...idealistic visions of a world without violence. Rhee became convinced that a passive uprising in Korea would win his people recognition both from America and from the League of Nations. In 1919 resistance leaders who had remained in Korea met secretly in Seoul to plot a revolt. Swayed by secondhand reports of Rhee's views, the conspirators distributed to every village in Korea a copy of a Korean Declaration of Independence and a set of orders...