Word: spaghetti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small monthly check from a patroness, Mrs. Joseph Wasserman, millionaire rugman's widow. For studio he uses a leaky shed in Oak Lane, lent him by Temple University. On rainy days he moves to a cellar. He has taught his Irish landlady how to make bouillabaisse, goulash, spaghetti sauces. "Already I am seven days behind in my rent," says breezy Peter Fingesten, "but she treat me like a mother; when I am sick she cure me - everything. Now she even wants to study painting from...
Mildly booming as a middleman for the warring nations, Italy nevertheless now pays $1.25 per gallon for gasoline. More important, the State-fixed price of bread has been raised from 7.9? to 8.1? per pound; spaghetti from 7? to 8?; olive oil from 49? to 57?per quart; sugar from14½? to 16½? per pound; butter from 42½? to 45?. Rome housewives guessed that living costs have risen 25% since break...
...heat," "bite" that makes good swing thrilling is completely lacking here. McBride's solo work is interesting technically, but adds up to some strings of spaghetti as far as getting any, idea of swing across. A written solo is so polished that it loses the life which is the essence of swing. It's too full of notes--if you don't believe it, listen to this record, and then to some of the old Goodman Trio records or Irving Fazola's doings with Bob Crosby...