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Treat It Gentle 88: There I was, working in the Eagle Orch [HDAS].at ork, n.
Treat It Gentle 88: There I was, working in the Eagle Orch [HDAS]. Treat It Gentle 152: [S]tanding there on the street, not even giving a goddamn’ how many shots they’re sending back at me.at not give a damn, v.
(con. c.1910) Treat It Gentle 63: Sometimes we’d have what they called in those days ‘bucking contests’ [...] One band, it would come up right in front of the other and play at it, and the first band it would play right back, until finally one band just had to give in [ibid.] 176: Louis [Armstrong] [...] was wanting to make it a kind of thing where were supposed to be bucking each other, competing instead of working together for the real feeling that would let the music come new and strong.at buck, v.2
Treat It Gentle 110: He [...] ran me out of there fast before some detective would come busting along.at bust, v.1
Treat It Gentle 102: [S]ometimes there’s nothing happens, and sometimes there’s trouble busting faster than you know it, and sometimes it’s luck comes busting.at bust, v.1
Treat It Gentle 192: [W]e hadn’t finished the first number before we had them going. They really moved.at have someone going (v.) under go, v.
Treat It Gentle 118: Freddie Keppard, he wasn’t all serious—he was a hell of a go-round man [...] After we finished playing we’d go through a whole lot of saloons.at go round, v.
Treat It Gentle 59: ‘[P]retty soon there was all kinds of dancing and hell raising, everybody having a whole lot of fun’.at hell-raising (adj.) under hell, n.
Treat It Gentle 167: When we recorded Really the Blues, it really hit. That was a sensation.at hit, v.
Treat It Gentle 3: Jazz could mean any damn’ thing: high times, screwing, ballroom. It used to be spelled Jass, which was screwing.at jazz, n.
Treat It Gentle 196: I wanted him to come to Europe, and I was always on to him about it but he never made up his mind.at onto, adj.
Treat It Gentle 73: Some of [the men] had their privates bandaged and there’d be sort of a strong odour-like, something like that iodoform.at private, n.
Treat It Gentle 152: [J]ust standing there pumping my gun and wanting to see every one of them dead in front of me.at pump, v.
Treat It Gentle 61: [T]hey were called ‘second liners’. They had to make their own parade with broomsticks, kerchiefs, tin pans, any old damn’ thing. And they’d take off shouting, singing, following along [...] They’d be the second line of the parade.at second line (v.) under second, adj.
Treat It Gentle 151: [H]e said, ‘Sidney, come on inside. My friend wants to see you.’ Well I knew better than that [...] So I said, ‘You tell your friend I’m not special about seeing him.’.at special, adj.
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