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...d never received flowers in my room; that was always for the chorus girls or singers. I was merely the horse woman and not sought after by admirers,... ...etermined to enjoy the remainder of our honeymoon, Erik was in a very black funk indeed. He barely spoke as I made tea and toast, and we ate our fir... ...ed the nightclubs of Monmartre. I had never been to a follies and seen the singers and dancers there. Again, no one seemed at all shocked at a wom... ...arden for the opera on Christmas Eve. It’s a mixed program, and one of the singers is from France. She thought that you might enjoy it.” She drop... ...y favorite recipes for madeleines and cheese crisps, and had Russian tea and American coffee on offer. The ladies came to the first one in droves, a...

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...s? Even the ones they claim to have been dictated by gods or aliens? Even if American copyright law requires “an author,” presumably a human one? 9 Ca... ...re—the mix of earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to t... ...r the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depression, or th... ...hey were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publish her cr... ...east till he figures out how to get his own shit together. T oday I hear some singers who I think sound like me. Joe Cocker, for instance. Man, I know ... ...ristic sounds: the warm guitar that came out of the valve amplifiers of early funk, the thrashing (and poorly miked) drums of ’80s punk, or the tinny p... ...ractices. Samplers take a three- second segment off the actual recording of “Funky Drummer,” manipulate it, and turn it into a repeating rhythm loop f... ...ms that there was a different source, a mysterious song by the Bailey Gospel Singers, or the Harold Bailey Gospel Singers, called “I’ve Got a Savior.”... ...more often? Why do samplers not simply recreate James Brown’s drumbeat from “Funky Drum- mer,” or George Clinton’s solo from “Get Off Your Ass and Jam...

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... Oh, hell no. This isn't happening. "We've got one victim down ... African-American male, early twenties ... wounds to the chest and abdomen..." Toy c... ...d making it work against the odds. In a sweeping finale, Tyler performed a funky-smooth dip, plunging back a giggling Dagny until her chignon brushed ... ...ow had been the perfect forum for Madam Camilla's interview as the host—an American Wiccan high priest—was a fundamentalist opposed to drugs and blunt... ...armhouse, turned to Kelly. "And you? What's your background?" "I'm African-American. My family's originally from the south. Georgia, to be specific." ... ...dows to better hear the dreamy violin strains backing the harmonizing male singers as they belted out a pure song with deep sentiments of being inside... ...to lighten up just a little bit. Girl could throw Mary Poppins into a blue funk." "Oh stop." Kelly shoved her shoulder. "She's not that bad. Besides, ...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- planted ...

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... of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situ... ...“arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any pleas... ...sibly a question of Mr. Waymarsh of Milrose Connecti- cut—Mr. Waymarsh the American lawyer. “Oh yes,” he replied, “my very well-known friend. He’s to ... ...- stance that the music in the salon was admirable, with two or three such singers as it was a privilege to hear in private. Their presence gave a dis... ...way of protecting herself. I don’t need protection, so that I was free to ‘funk’ you—simply to dodge your test. The responsibility was too much for me...

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...ey joined the low coast of Malacca away to the eastward. The voices of the singers at the harmonium were held down by the awnings, and came to us with... ... wrong, was the way the two men passengers behaved. They were useless with funk—out and out fear. They lay in the boat and did nothing. Fetched a groa... ... 100 Soldiers Three ANTHONY. ‘Can’t quite say. A very bad tummy and a blue funk so far. He asked me at once if it was cholera, and I told him not to b... ...nd I told him not to be a fool. That soothed him. CURTISS. Poor devil! The funk does half the business in a man of that build. ANTHONY. (Lighting a ch... ...l.) Jack’s an ass. There’s enough brass on this to load a mule—and, if the Americans know anything about anything, it can be cut down to a bit only. ‘... ...f life their preachers lead; speak to the Racine Gospel Agency, those lean Americans whose boast is that they go where no Englishman dare follow; get ... ...mine English educa- tion—out-casted, and made up name Dana Da—England with American thought-reading man and—and—you gave me ten rupees several times—I...

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...per toboggan- ing, and tobogganing a milder jumping down. Always I used to funk at the top of the Cresta run. I suffered sometimes almost intolerably;... ... talking of Eugenics and the “family”—Benham was almost knocked down by an American trotter driven by Lord Breeze. “Whup there!” said Lord Breeze in a... ...uestrian… .” That night some malignant spirit kept Benham awake, and great American trotters with vast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncon... ...ast wide-striding feet and long yellow teeth, uncontrollable, hard-mouthed American trot- ters, pounded over his angry soul. “Prothero,” he said in ha... ...atural man. I admit training. I perceive I am lax and flabby, unguarded, I funk too much, I eat too much, and I drink too much. And, yet, what I have ... ...u, Benham, is just this— that you don’t.” “I do,” said Benham. “Do what?” “Funk.” “Benham, I believe that naturally you funk as much as I do. You’re m... ...er of charming people of the war that was then imminent, listened to gipsy singers until dawn, careered in sledges about the most silent and stately o...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... ...ns. She helped them to move Adolph into the kitchen. The man was in such a funk that he would not use his legs. He was heavy, and smelled of sweat and... ...ictures and a halting narrative. Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and gui...

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... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...omedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discov- ered to po... ...so afraid of Foinet that he won’t let him see his work. After all, I don’t funk it, do I? I don’t care what Foinet says to me, I know I’m a real artis...

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... it, depend upon it: it is a sad life, a poor pastime. Mr. Dickens, in his American book, tells of the prisoners at the silent prison, how they had or... ...n Miss Brunck and Miss Horsman, the two contraltos, and between the chorus-singers, after their kind) a great rivalry arose. Larkins was certainly the... ...whenever she was wanted, or when people could not afford to hire the first singers) she was asked to parties else- where, and treated with that killin... ...he manager, whose actions were worth of remark. He sang with all the three singers, and a great deal louder than any of them; he shouted bravo! or his... ...slightly across the face with the back of his hand, saying, “Y ou are in a funk.” But this was a feeling which Frank Berry did not in the least entert...

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...9 The Day’s Work infernal music rolled and maddened round red fires, while singers sang songs of the ancient times, and danced peculiar dances. The ab... ...- ing or evading their tribal obligations.” “That means they are in a blue funk—same as they were at census-time,” said the Colonel; “and if we stampe... ... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei...

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...ll, she said, it was not the spirits, but the tobacco, which the Dutch and American sail- ors were glad enough to exchange for her mother’s commodi- t... ...ed, and the sellers were in commotion, and he had been all day putting the singers one by one through their parts, that as he went to his room at nigh... ... Rockquay with the tobacco-shop. She had cho- sen that place on account of American trading-vessels put- ting in there, as well as those of various fo... ...e sang—well, she sang better than she did at home; but she was in an awful funk, though I kept on looking at her, and shouting bravo to encourage her;... ...where she was to be left for a year, while Fernan with Marilda visited his American establishments, and on their return would decide whether she would... ...gnor Menotti, Via San Giacomo, Genoa, or his successors, a man who trained singers and per- formers, and moreover took charge of Benista’s money, and ... ...gnor Menotti, Via San Giacomo, Genoa, or his successors, a man who trained singers and per- formers, and moreover took charge of Benista’s money, and ...

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... from gaunt trees, broken windows, grey walls, and doors covered with torn American leather! 84 Anton Chekhov When I go to my own entrance the door i... ...ing them. Gnekker and the young ladies talk of fugues, of counterpoint, of singers and pianists, of Bach and Brahms, while my wife, afraid of their su... ...hough he were suck- ing a sugar-stick — sue, sue, sue;… he is in a nervous funk; he can hardly decipher his own manuscript; his poor little thoughts c... ...an, has denounced him, proving that the discovery was made in 1870 by some American; while a third person, also a German, trumps them both by proving ...