Word: singleton
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Pacesetter at last Sunday's session, as at earlier ones, was saucer-eyed, head-bobbing, jelly-wristed Zutty Singleton, Negro drummer, pronounced the greatest of all time by French Expert Hugues Panassie. Baby-faced Artie Shapiro, once a child wonder at 16, slapped the bull fiddle...
They were fleeing because mustachioed Brigadier General Asa L. Singleton noted an alarming increase of venereal disease at Fort Benning. Forthwith he laid down the law to Columbus and Phenix City: run out the tarts, or both towns would be declared "out of bounds" for Fort Benning troops...
...Brush Judd, $150 for Luther Story. Mr. Story did not have his glasses on when his letter came, thought at first the check was an advertising coupon and started to throw it away. In the same strange manner, a $100 check came for Mrs. Grace Singleton, whose husband died last June. Widow Singleton used the money to pay off a note at the bank, buy seed oats for her farm...